From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Dec 2 18:51: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from ren.detir.qld.gov.au (ns.detir.qld.gov.au [203.46.81.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F67B14EA6 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 18:50:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au) Received: by ren.detir.qld.gov.au; id MAA03051; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:49:48 +1000 (EST) Received: from ogre.detir.qld.gov.au(167.123.8.3) via SMTP by ren.detir.qld.gov.au, id smtpd002979; Fri Dec 3 12:49:44 1999 Received: from atlas.detir.qld.gov.au (atlas.detir.qld.gov.au [167.123.8.9]) by ogre.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA16844; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:44:41 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (nymph.detir.qld.gov.au [167.123.10.10]) by atlas.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA02390; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:44:40 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA04138; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:44:39 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from syssgm@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au) Message-Id: <199912030244.MAA04138@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: Tape driver problems References: In-Reply-To: from Matthew Jacob at "Thu, 02 Dec 1999 10:10:49 -0800" Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 12:44:38 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 2nd December 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote: >> "mt status" with no tape loaded gives an error: >> >> mt: /dev/nrsa0: Device not configured >> >> which seems a bit harsh. Also the kernel logs error messages like: > >Yes, let me think about the error a bit. It may be more a question of >changing 'mt' to report something other than just perror. I think 'Device not configured' should be reserved for when the device is truly non-existent, not just when it has no tape. >I'll have to check what happened here. Do you have CAMDEBUG defined? Hmm. That looks like the sort of thing I might do. ;-) I'll confirm tonight to see if this is my fault. >Hmm, indeed. The density determining code does indeed issue a read of >MAXPHYS bytes. It seems to me that all HBA's should at least support that! >The maintainer for the 1542X will have to speak to this tho... I'll help with fixing the 1542B devices. I have lots of them! Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message