From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 11:23:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97D116A422 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:23:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C9E543D4C for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:23:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DkKGw-000361-Nq for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:16:58 +0200 Received: from blueice1n1.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:16:58 +0200 Received: from element by blueice1n1.de.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:16:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Pavel Duda Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:21:39 +0200 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <42B5E723.7080503@dial.pipex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: blueice1n1.de.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Thunderbird/0.9 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <42B5E723.7080503@dial.pipex.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: DDS Tape problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:23:14 -0000 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Pavel Duda wrote: > >> Hi, >> I have problem with my DDS-3 type drive. I'm able to write on it but >> not read data back. If I try to read them I get card dump and tape >> drive hangs up. I have tried to upgrade firmware but problem remains. >> Does somebody have experience with this ? >> >> My specs : >> FreeBSD 5.2.1, generic kernel, x86 (P3), SCSI card is Adaptec AHA2940 >> and tape drive Python 04106. > > > Not terribly helpful, but I have a DAT2 working with an Adaptec 2940A. > It's worked since forever and is fine with 5.4 though I never ran > 5.1/2/3. Is the machine it's attached to dual-boot? I.e. can you test > the tape drive in Windows, or Linux for example? (Well, they have to be > good for something :-)) Is this a recent problem or is this the first > time you've tried using this drive? Can you try another SCSI adapter? > I've run mine (for testing only) off the cheapest rubbish I got free > with a SCSI CDRW and it was fine. > I was trying to use Tekram SCSI adapter with same result. I have taken this DDS tape from my AIX machine (netfinity) where it was working wo problems. > The only other guess would be termination. Has anything else on your > SCSI chain changed? Is the terminator properly plugged in? > Termination should be fine. I have tried both variants - termination on tape and termination via active terminator on cable. > --Alex > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >