Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 21:18:14 -0800 From: bobb@netcom.com (Bob Beaulieu) To: tulchins@voland.phoebe.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EXABYTE SCSI tape Message-ID: <199601100518.VAA17356@netcom.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <199601091416.OAA00774@voland.phoebe.com>
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In article <199601091416.OAA00774@voland.phoebe.com> you write: >Hi everybody, > >Here is my problem. I can't make my SCSI tape drive >work. If drive is empty at the boot time I get: > (ahc0:3:0): "EXABYTE EXB-8200 2618" type 1 removable SCSI 1 >st0(ahc0:3:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x0, drive empty > >if I put tape in it tries to access it and after three "device busy" >shows "drive empty". > >How can I get it to work. I am tired of reinstalling and >reconfiguring the system after every crash :-( > >I am running 2.1 from cdrom. I have pentium 90 with adaptec 2940. > >Thanks a lot for your help. >Please reply to tulchins@ix.netcom.com. > >Steven Hi Steve, I'm trying to get an Exabyte 2501 going also and having a hell of a time. J"org is working with me trying to get it working and I rebuilt my kernel with options SCSIDEBUG and booted the kernel with -v. As soon as the system came up and as root he had me try: scsi -f /dev/st0ctl.0 -d 255 and after try some operations: mt status mt blocksize 0 mt blocksize 10240 tar c mt rewind Maybe this will tell you something in /var/log/messages with the debug? I'm new at this, so sorry can't be of much help. Oh, I called Exabyte and they suggested closing 5&6 on jumper9 to set the blocking to 512 - didn't work...:( Still trying to figure out what the problem is... Bob Beaulieu ez@eztravel.com >
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