Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 21:30:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Brann <jbrann@panix.com> To: btarr@resnet.uoregon.edu (Bryan J. Tarr) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help with SCSI tape Message-ID: <199511170230.VAA10168@jbrann.dialup.access.net> In-Reply-To: <199511151812.KAA05924@resnet.uoregon.edu> from "Bryan J. Tarr" at Nov 15, 95 10:15:56 am
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Bryan J. Tarr wrote... > > Thank you in advance for any help that you can provide me. > > > I have a Connor Tapestor 4Gig SCSI tape drive. I just put > 2.1.0-951104-SNAP on my Pent 120, with an Adeptec 2940 SCSI controller. I [... stuff deleted ] > >I have used dd to write to the tape from /dev/zero and successfully written > up to 200megs but it seems to fail when using tar and gzip compression. > > > Bryan J. Tarr > Residence Network Assistant > University of Oregon Housing > Not much help I'm afraid, but here goes - I have the same tape drive (2Gb without compression) and SCSI card, my processor is a pentium 60. Mine behaves OK with tar - I can tar a 700Mb filesystem without difficulty - but I have had problems with dump. There's definitely something strange about the drive, when I try to move past files on tape (using 'mt fsf 1') the drive winds repeatedly and gradually locks up the SCSI bus - causing the system to hang and requiring a reset to fix. My (totally unjustified) opinion is that we have bought a lemon. John. -- Difficult conversations with great figures of history: 3. Winston Churchill: "Excuse me, this is the no-smoking section."
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