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Date:      Sun, 31 Dec 1995 01:59:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      EZ Travel <ez@eztravel.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Can FreeBSD do EXABYTE ???
Message-ID:  <199512310959.BAA00434@eztravel.com>

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Been trying to get an Exabyte Tape drive (SCSI) working all day
with no luck - thought scsi tape devices were simple to setup
with FreeBSD?  I have a 2940W - every thing else (HD's,CD) works
okay?

Tried:
cd /dev
sh MAKEDEV st0

If I type 'mt rewind' below are the messages I get.  Looks as though
somethings not exactly right?!  The Exabyte was terminated and I
thought this might be the problem and took the terminators (3)
out and the same symptoms.

***********output to screen regarding tape drive at bootup ********
Dec 30 21:43:23 eztravel /kernel: (ahc0:1:0): "EXABYTE EXB-2501 2900" type 1 removable SCSI 2
Dec 30 21:43:23 eztravel /kernel: st0(ahc0:1:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x92, 1024-byte blocks, write-enabled
Dec 30 21:43:23 eztravel /kernel: ahc0: target 2 synchronous at 4.0MB/s, offset = 0xf


*********start of error messages trying to use tape drive **********

Dec 30 21:44:17 eztravel /kernel: ahc0: target 1, lun 0 (st0) timed out
Dec 30 21:44:17 eztravel /kernel: 
Dec 30 21:44:17 eztravel /kernel: sd2(ahc0:6:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:20,0 Invalid command operation code
Dec 30 21:44:17 eztravel /kernel: st0(ahc0:1:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0
Dec 30 21:44:17 eztravel /kernel: st0(ahc0:1:0):  Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred
Dec 30 21:44:17 eztravel /kernel: ahc0: WARNING no command for scb 0 (cmdcmplt)
Dec 30 21:44:17 eztravel /kernel: QOUTCNT == 0
Dec 30 21:44:17 eztravel /kernel: ahc0: target 6 synchronous at 10.0MB/s, offset = 0x8
Dec 30 21:44:17 eztravel /kernel: sd2(ahc0:6:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0
Dec 30 21:44:17 eztravel /kernel: sd2(ahc0:6:0):  Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred
Dec 30 21:44:17 eztravel /kernel: , retries:4
Dec 30 21:48:45 eztravel /kernel: ahc0: target 1, lun 0 (st0) timed out
Dec 30 21:48:45 eztravel /kernel: 

****************end of messages*************

I pretty much need to reboot at this point.  

Anyone see what's wrong?

Bob



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