From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 16:57:51 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA14613 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 16:57:51 -0700 Received: from feith1.FEITH.COM (feith1.FEITH.COM [192.251.93.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA14607 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 16:57:48 -0700 Received: from drewsun.FEITH.COM by feith1.FEITH.COM (5.x/SMI-SVR4/Feith Mar 14 1995) id AA26922; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:57:47 -0400 Received: by drewsun.FEITH.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05308; Thu, 27 Jul 95 19:57:45 EDT From: drew@drewsun.feith.com (Andrew B. Sudell) Message-Id: <9507272357.AA05308@drewsun.FEITH.COM> Subject: Loading from Exebyte 8205 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 19:57:45 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: drew@feith1.FEITH.COM Organization: Feith Systems and Software, Inc. Phone: 215-646-8000 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have been trying to load the June 22 SNAP from a Exebyte 8205 tape and having no luck. The system boots ok and recognizes the scsi bus (a NCR 810) and sees all the devices. After loading the ncr0 driver, it does a reset and "waits for the bus to settle". The tape resets and spends a fair amount of time (typical for a 8205) retensioning the tape. [I have been trying this mostly with the tape in before booting.] The install program claims that there is no tape. Upon exiting the install, I see the following on the screen. st0(ncr0:2,0): NOT READY asy:4,1 st0(ncr0:2,0): Logical unit is in the process of becoming ready Booting without the tape, also fails, though then the "not ready" is "media not present, not ready" I suspect some silly timing issue, but frankly am stumped. Any ideas? -- Andrew B. Sudell drew@feith.com Feith Systems and Software, Inc. attmail!feith1!drew A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert A. Heinlein