From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 18:31:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA01469 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 18:31:51 -0800 Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA01464 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 18:31:47 -0800 Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA10168; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 21:30:09 -0500 Message-Id: <199511170230.VAA10168@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: help with SCSI tape To: btarr@resnet.uoregon.edu (Bryan J. Tarr) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 21:30:09 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511151812.KAA05924@resnet.uoregon.edu> from "Bryan J. Tarr" at Nov 15, 95 10:15:56 am From: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1181 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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."