From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 28 13:56:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 672C4151A8 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:56:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from feral.com (mjacob@feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA26498; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:55:12 -0700 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:55:11 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Christopher T. Johnson" Cc: Wilko Bulte , dillon@apollo.backplane.com, shocking@prth.pgs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Further on tape & CAM problems In-Reply-To: <199904282045.QAA38050@neunacht.netgsi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > That sounds like a bug. But it could be CAM not understanding that the > > 8200 firmware went to Nowhere-land. If I got a dime for each Exabyte > > lockup.. > > Yep, been there done that. But these drives have been rock solid. It is > not the case of putting in a new, unknown drive and finding out that > it is a little strange. It is the case where I have a hardware configuration > that has been stable that suddenly isn't. > > The original change is the upgrade to 4.0-CURRENT. After that drive > "failed" I took our back up drive and put it into production and got exactly > the same failure mode. > > Here is the sequence that I just did: > Old working tape. > mt erase & > 1hr 30minutes or so later > Drive makes sounds of tape stopping. > Amber light comes on > mt erase reports done (no errors) > mt rewind > mt: /dev/nrsa0: Device busy > push button on face plate > amber light goes out, tape noises. > Green light comes on. > mt rewind > tape is ejected at the same place as all the other failures. > push tape back into drive > Drive is ejected. > manually rewind tape (Yeah Yeah, I know don't do it but the exabyte > ejects the tape each time it is reinserted until I have > it mostly rewound) > repeat with new tapes old tapes and almost new tapes.... Same thing > Chris I'm sorry- I missed the front end of this. I've had pretty good luck with getting the 8200 to work. What f/w level are you at for the 8200? -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message