From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Jan 3 11:52:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA10717 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 11:52:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA10708 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 11:52:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA18138; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 20:51:35 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA18420; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 20:51:34 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA15888; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 20:49:07 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 20:49:07 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: scsi@freebsd.org Cc: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 References: <199701031321.HAA08056@bonkers.taronga.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701031321.HAA08056@bonkers.taronga.com>; from Peter da Silva on Jan 3, 1997 07:21:25 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Peter da Silva wrote: > FreeBSD doesn't like Exabyte 8200s at all. I've tried with a 1540B, a 1742, > and a 2940. And no matter what controller I use it's really flakey and > unreliable. I don't love the Exabytes anyway (still having one 8505 drive there that doesn't want to spit out the cassette anymore, grrr). Surprisingly enough, the 8200 that's sitting somewhere on a shelf works fairly flawlessly, except that it also sometimes believes it were better to keep the cassette swallowed. Maybe it's firmware dependant? I think Exabyte has a reputation of a patch-of-the-week firmware. (Sorry, our 8200 is at work, so i can't get at the firmware rev right now.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)