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Date:      Sat, 4 Dec 1999 11:14:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Feisal Mohammed <Feisal.O.Mohammed@uwi.tt>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/15069: T400s hangs on any access
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912041112120.45044-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <38496514.638F051E@uwi.tt>

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On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Feisal Mohammed wrote:

> mjacob@FreeBSD.org wrote:
>  
> > First of all, you have to have a tape in the drive for any open of the
> > non-control device to work at all. See the sa(4) man page on this.
> Ah hah! sometimes it does pay to read the man pages.  I checked
> but it does not say so explictly just by implication.

Point taken.

> 
> > Second, is there anything on this tape you inserted? Did the read ever
> > time out?
> Yes the tape was a dump from a 2.2.7 system.  
> 
> I waited longer this time and after 6 mins the driver gave some other messages
> 14:40:08 (sa0:adv0:0:4:0): sastrategy: enqueuing a 32768 fixed byte read queue count now 1
> 14:40:08 (sa0:adv0:0:4:0): sastart(sa0:adv0:0:4:0): Fixed Record Count is 64
> 14:40:08 (sa0:adv0:0:4:0): READ(06). CDB: 8 1 0 0 40 0  <-- restore -i started
> 
> 14:46:07 (sa0:adv0:0:4:0): saopen(0): dev=0x0 softc=0x80b
> 14:46:07 (sa0:adv0:0:4:0): saclose(0): dev=0x0 softc=0x80b
> 
> and finally after 20 minutes still nothing!

Hmm.

> 
> > I hate to keep asking these questions, but I sure don't have one of these
> > drives. The closes one I have is a T20 and it works fine.
> I don't mind the questions, I do want to get it working.  I installed
> the drive temporarily on a 2.2.7 system to restore my files and needless
> to say it worked there :-(

Ooh, that's always a painful one. I sure wish I knew what it's unhappy
about. I think if I understood the messages you sent, you're working from
a -stable kernel that does *not* inlude the changes I committed yesterday.

If you could managed to get a new kernel from yesterday's -stable bits,
see if *that* helps at all.

-matt




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