From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 13:14:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A4E37B401; Thu, 15 May 2003 13:14:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA61B43FA3; Thu, 15 May 2003 13:14:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: from panzer.kdm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panzer.kdm.org (8.12.9/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h4FKDXPM000681; Thu, 15 May 2003 14:13:33 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.12.9/8.12.5/Submit) id h4FKDXeX000680; Thu, 15 May 2003 14:13:33 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 14:13:33 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Mikhail Teterin Message-ID: <20030515141332.A668@panzer.kdm.org> References: <200305151607.02102.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200305151607.02102.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>; from mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com on Thu, May 15, 2003 at 04:07:02PM -0400 cc: gibbs@FreeBSD.org cc: aschneider@murex.com cc: scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: troubles with an Exhabyte tape drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 20:14:29 -0000 On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 16:07:02 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! > > We can read the tapes using this drive: > > sym0: <875> port 0x2400-0x24ff mem 0x42000000-0x42000fff,0x42100000-0x421000ff > irq 11 at device 16.0 on pci0 > sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking > sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM > sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware. > sa0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device > sa0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit) > > > but we can not write anything :-( The kernel's messages logged are: > > (sa0:sym0:0:0:0): WRITE(06). CDB: a 0 0 28 0 0 > (sa0:sym0:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:30,5 > (sa0:sym0:0:0:0): Cannot write medium - incompatible format > > Is it our clumsiness, or the tapes (we tried about a dozen), or the > drive? Thanks a lot! I'm guessing it's the tapes. That's what the message seems to say. Are you *sure* your tapes are write compatible with the drive? I know there are various Exabyte drives that can read, but not write, old format tapes. Since you can read the tapes but can't write them, I'm guessing that that's the problem. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org