Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 21:22:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: <freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SCSI timeout problems going from May23 to July13 kernel Message-ID: <20010725212049.R35492-100000@wonky.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <6f6vlt0lki9dt4bgujmr8por8pgsqrebk4@4ax.com>
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Huh. I'm beginning to think that the "test read" that's done at samount time is more trouble than it is worth. I do it try and pick up density of inserted tape- a lot of drives won't tell you anything interesting until you access the tape. But in some cases it sends the drive/tape into the weeds. Grumble. -matt On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 16 Jul 2001 10:56:55 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.scsi you wrote: > > > > >Hi, > > A previously working system started to show problems with the tape drive > >since doing a make world. The may23 kernel worked great, but my Friday the > >13th kernel is giving me problems on doing a backup. (yes, I was tempting > >fate! ;-)) The MFC seems to be from the 24th of June, so I doubt its an all > >pervasive bug. Is it just coincidence that my hardware is going bad ? > > > OK, just to followup on this original posting, it might be a little bit of > both. Either way, I am able to get tapes working just fine by specifying > the tape density via mt. The problems would only show up with blank new > tapes, not ones that had data on them. > > ---Mike > Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) > Sentex Communications Corp, > Waterloo, Ontario, Canada > "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers > could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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