Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:08:48 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: Javier Henderson <javier@KJSL.COM>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape drive oddities Message-ID: <20000621080848.A81471@freebie.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006201647270.12031-100000@semuta.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 04:48:23PM -0700 References: <14672.380.691352.782821@karenium.kjsl.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006201647270.12031-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 04:48:23PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > Not a tape driver problem- sounds like either your termination is wrong on the > 1542C (check via bios), or that there's something not quite right with the > adaptec 1542 driver. A repeatable off-by-1 error due to termination problems? I doubt it to be honest.. Sounds more like driver problems to me > On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Javier Henderson wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > I recently picked up a Digital DLT drive (the exact > > model number is TH4AA). > > > > I tried it with FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE and an Adaptec AHA1510A and > > it works fine. > > > > I then switched to an AHA 1542C and things got funky. No > > matter what argument I used for -b, writes always failed one byte > > short of the block size. For example, if I did: > > > > tar -c -b 10240 /usr > > > > I would get an error message about only 10239 bytes being > > written. > > > > I put the AHA1510A back on, and the thing works fine. -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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