Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 12:14:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: harlan@pfcs.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: bt946C card hangs reading 4mm tape written on Solaris machine Message-ID: <199606051014.MAA08164@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199606050436.AAA27230@clark.net> from "Harlan Stenn" at Jun 5, 96 00:36:04 am
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Harlan Stenn writes: > > 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. Possibly with a different controller. I've seen this with BSD/OS as well. It seems to happen with marginal tapes. Possibly a different tape drive would help too. Can you still read the tape on a Solaris machine? > 2) Can something be done to prevent the SCSI controller from hanging in > this case?? Possibly. I can't comment. Greg
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