Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:25:32 -0400 From: "William Stevenson" <william@skybluecircles.com> To: "Scott Ballantyne" <sdb@ssr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EXABYTE 8200 on FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <1310171132.14237.2149790385@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20110708152135.74807.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> References: <20110708152135.74807.qmail@irelay.ssr.com>
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On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:21 +0000, "Scott Ballantyne" <sdb@ssr.com> wrote: > I know this is ancient technology, but we have a pile of exabyte tapes > made on an 8200 and would like to recover some of the data on them. > > We have an old 5.3 machine which has an adaptec 2120S, and the Exabyte > is connected to that. The kernel identifies the Exabyte on boot, but > it's all downhill after that. > > The driver sometimes spits out a pile of errors (I'll append a sample > at the end) and mt doesn't seem to do simple commands (like a retension). > > I note that the MT page for 5.3 says that not all SCSI-1 devices are > supported. So before I invest more time in this, I am wondering if > anyone can tell if the support is there for this configuration? > > If not, what (inexpensive) options do I have for possibly retrieving > this data? > > Thanks a lot, > Scott > -- > sdb@ssr.com > > An "mt status" causes the driver to report: > > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 f 0 1c 0 > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:0,0 > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): No additional sense information > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 f 0 1c 0 > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:0,0 > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): No additional sense information > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 f 0 1c 0 > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:0,0 > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): No additional sense information > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 f 0 1c 0 > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:0,0 > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): No additional sense information > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 f 0 1c 0 > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:0,0 > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): No additional sense information > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 f 0 1c 0 > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:0,0 > (sa0:aacp0:0:4:0): No additional sense information > > > While mt reports: > > Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression > Current: default variable 0 unsupported > ---------available modes--------- > 0: default variable 0 unsupported > 1: default variable 0 unsupported > 2: default variable 0 unsupported > 3: default variable 0 unsupported > --------------------------------- > Current Driver State: at rest. > --------------------------------- > File Number: 0 Record Number: 0 Residual Count 0 > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hi Scott, Do any of these links help? http://cis.kutztown.edu/~frye/cgi-bin/unixManPages.cgi?st+7D http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=115&prodSeriesId=63988&prodTypeId=12169&objectID=lpg51061 http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1995/0984.html There were also a couple hits to the drivers if those would help. Thanks, William
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