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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 1995 22:59:44 +-200
From:      Adri Koppes <adrik@nikhefk.nikhef.nl>
To:        "freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: Problems with Tandberg streamer
Message-ID:  <01BA5A19.2E74D1C0@adri>

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From: 	J Wunsch[SMTP:j@uriah.heep.sax.de]
Sent: 	maandag 24 juli 1995 10:21
To: 	Adri Koppes
Cc: 	freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org; lukosch@ibm.net
Subject: 	Re: Problems with Tandberg streamer

As Adri Koppes wrote:
> 
> >Hardware:
> >Tandberg 36XX 150MB Streamer

> >kernel: st0(aha0:4:0): illegal request
> >st0: Cannot set selected mode
> >st0: oops not queued
> >tar: read error on /dev/rst0 : Input/output error

> >A tape operation is not working. Under FreeBSD 1.1.5
> >a tape operation was possible once.

> I had exactly the same thing happen under 1.1.5 and 2.0. Tape load, rewind
> and erase would work, but no reading or writing.
> It turned out that my tape (wangtek 5525ES), when set in SCSI-2 mode, wanted
> the SCSI-2 bit turned on in the mode select command.
> I believe i made some changes for 1.1.5. I might be able to dig them up. For
> 2.0 I just set the tape to SCSI-1 mode.

Which adapters do you use?  I'm using the exact same streamer
(TDC36XX) without any problem now.  This is with a BusLogic BT742A and
the bt driver.  The only problem previously (including 2.0.5R) has
been that any operation on the rewind device worked only once, and i
had to manually unload/reload the tape after this.  This has been
fixed with the following revision of sys/scsi/st.c:

revision 1.37
date: 1995/07/09 08:14:24;  author: joerg;  state: Exp;  lines: +8 -6
PR #kern/572:

>Synopsis:       Booting w/scsi tape in drive causes first use to fail

Booting with a tape in a SCSI tape drive will cause the first
use of the tape to fail with the following message:

st0: bad request, must be between 0 and 0.

Submitted by:   mpp@legarto.minn.net (Mike Pritchard)


Does fiddling with the drive settings (via mt(1)) change anything?

I am using an AHA-1740B or AHA1540B and a Wangtek 5525ES tape streamer. The problem only occurs if i set my tape to SCSI-2.
Perhaps the Tandberg tape has a similar setting?

Adri.




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