From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 9 22:21:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA11816 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 22:21:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA11780 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 22:21:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA00144; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:21:18 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA27096; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:21:17 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id HAA04938; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:15:38 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601100615.HAA04938@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: EXABYTE SCSI tape To: tulchins@voland.phoebe.com (Steven Tulchinsky) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:15:38 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601091416.OAA00774@voland.phoebe.com> from "Steven Tulchinsky" at Jan 9, 96 02:16:25 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Steven Tulchinsky wrote: > > 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 Hmm, i've got some sort of Exabyte 8 mm drive working. I think it's been an EXB-85XX however. I've also got some patches for it sitting for a review. Re: your crashes: i think Justin's recent ahc driver fixes might help you. It's _not_ normal that you end up with a directory containing silly device nodes instead of regular files, this is causes by something stomping across your disk in a very rude way (and i've only seen it on the ahc driver, until my boss finally bought me a second AHA2940 for tape & cdrom). -- 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. ;-)