Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 16:54:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Peter van Heusden <pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EXA 8200 tape drive on FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980802165401.F21892@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980802085049.19537B-100000@leftside.wcape.school.za>; from Peter van Heusden on Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 08:56:17AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980802085049.19537B-100000@leftside.wcape.school.za>
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On Sunday, 2 August 1998 at 8:56:17 +0200, Peter van Heusden wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to get a EXA 8200 tape drive working on FreeBSD. It is detected > fine by the kernel during startup, and I can do a 'mt status' on it, with > the following results: > > Present Mode: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable > ---------available modes--------- > Mode 0: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable > Mode 1: Density = X3.136-1986 Blocksize = 512 bytes > Mode 2: Density = X3.39-1986 Blocksize variable > Mode 3: Density = X3.54-1986 Blocksize variable > > However, I cannot write to it at all - even after a 'mt erase', I get the > following: > > bash# mt rewind > bash# dd if=/kernel of=/dev/nrst0 bs=64 count=1024 > dd: /dev/nrst0: Input/output error > 1+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes transferred in 0.082043 secs (0 bytes/sec) > bash# > > with the console showing the following message: > > st0: oops not queued > > Is there anything else I can try to get this thing working, or should I > just give up on it? Well, you could start by describing your hardware. System, memory, controller, OS version. Then we might get an idea. And yes, it's worth following up on. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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