From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 7 9:39: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0A337B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:39:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from giskard.ag0ny.com (flets-tokyo-1-141.dsn.jp [61.213.134.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57D4143ED4 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:38:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ag0ny@ag0ny.com) Received: (qmail 33613 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2003 17:38:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cosmos3.ag0ny.com) (ag0ny1@192.168.0.2) by 0 with SMTP; 7 Jan 2003 17:38:22 -0000 Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 02:38:45 +0900 From: Javi Lavandeira To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: HP SureStore 24i Message-Id: <20030108023845.4d00c2a4.ag0ny@ag0ny.com> Organization: aamsx.org X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsd4.6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I recently bought an HP SureStore 24i (DDS3 SCSI2 drive, 50 pins) on an auction site, and I'm not sure about whether I'm doing anything wrong, or the unit is broken. This is my configuration: The server is an Athlon @1.4Ghz on an Asus motherboard. The SCSI card is an Adaptec AHA3940UWD: two UltraSCSI2 (68 pins) channels. On the first channel I have a 18Gb UltraSCSI disk (and a terminator at the end of the cable), in single-ended mode: da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 8 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 17501MB (35843670 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2231C) On the second channel (a different cable, which is also 68 pins), I have connected the DAT drive using a 68<->50 pin adapter, on the SCSI ID 0, with another terminator at the end of this cable. It is recognized correctly at boot time: sa0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) The switches in the unit are all ON, but switch number 3, which is OFF. The 'Clean' LED in the unit is off, so it doesn't need cleaning. This is the output of an 'mt status' when I insert a blank tape: giskard:~# mt status Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression Current: 0x25:DDS-3 variable 97000 DCLZ ---------available modes--------- 0: 0x25:DDS-3 variable 97000 DCLZ 1: 0x25:DDS-3 variable 97000 DCLZ 2: 0x25:DDS-3 variable 97000 DCLZ 3: 0x25:DDS-3 variable 97000 DCLZ --------------------------------- Current Driver State: at rest. --------------------------------- File Number: 0 Record Number: 0 Residual Count 8192 The problem is that I cannot write anything to the tape. For example, an 'mt fsf 1' takes forever (I got tired of waiting after 30 minutes, with the tape going from one side to the other). The following error appears in /var/log/messages when I stop the operation by ejecting the tape manually (pressing the 'Eject' button): Jan 8 02:22:08 giskard /kernel: (sa0:ahc1:0:0:0): SPACE. CDB: 11 1 0 0 1 0 Jan 8 02:22:08 giskard /kernel: (sa0:ahc1:0:0:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 1 (decimal) asc:0,5 Jan 8 02:22:08 giskard /kernel: (sa0:ahc1:0:0:0): End-of-data detected When I use dump to backup my root partition to the tape, the following error appears in /var/log/messages: (sa0:ahc1:0:0:0): WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10 0 0 0 1 0 (sa0:ahc1:0:0:0): Deferred Error: MEDIUM ERROR asc:3b,0 (sa0:ahc1:0:0:0): Sequential positioning error field replaceable unit: 2 (sa0:ahc1:0:0:0): WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10 0 0 0 1 0 (sa0:ahc1:0:0:0): Deferred Error: MEDIUM ERROR asc:3b,0 (sa0:ahc1:0:0:0): Sequential positioning error field replaceable unit: 2 Any idea about what could be the problem? Regards, -- Javi Lavandeira (ag0ny@ag0ny.com) - http://www.ag0ny.com - http://www.aamsx.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message