From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Oct 1 15:22:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA02803 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 15:22:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA02795 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 15:22:42 -0700 (PDT) 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 AAA17576; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 00:21:12 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA24990; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 00:21:12 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id AAA18359; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 00:05:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610012205.AAA18359@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Problems with an HP DAT 35480 A 1109 To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 00:05:12 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: rama@easynet.fr (David Ramahefason) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from David Ramahefason at "Oct 1, 96 04:00:09 pm" 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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Ramahefason wrote: > I'm trying to have an Amanda server on my FBSD box, but seem to have > problems with my DAT drive... > When I issuse a tar cvf /dev/nrst0 * I always get an I/O error. I've > tryied different tapes, but got the same result. The IO error itself is not a very much useful hint. Any SCSI error messages on the console? We've got an HP 35480 at work which works flawlessly (though not [yet] with Amanda, but with plain dump and tar). -- 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. ;-)