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Subject: bt946C card hangs reading 4mm tape written on Solaris machine
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 00:36:04 -0400
From: Harlan Stenn <harlan@clark.net>
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I wrote a tar file to a 4mm exabyte(?) DAT drive attached to a Solaris
machine.  I verified the tape's content.

I put the tape into a Connor (Archive Python) DDS-2 4mm drive, and tried
to read it.  The BT946C controller hung.  Eventually, I got a SCSI abort
message, which timed out to a controller abort command, which never
finishes, either.  The only solution is to hit the reset button.

Sorry I don't have a better description of the abort messages; they go to
the console but never get logged anywhere because the SCSI controller is
hung!

Two questions.

1) How can I read this tape?  I haven't had problems reading 4mm tar tapes
written on a few other platforms.

2) Can something be done to prevent the SCSI controller from hanging in
this case??

Thanks...

H