From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Feb 2 19:36:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.home.hentschel.net (w002.z064221160.smf-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.221.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC4E37B4EC for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 19:36:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from hentschel.net (booocnc.net@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by falcon.home.hentschel.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f133a1H25367; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 19:36:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thomas@hentschel.net) Message-Id: <200102030336.f133a1H25367@falcon.home.hentschel.net> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 19:35:59 -0800 (PST) From: thomas@hentschel.net Subject: Re: CANNOT ACCESS T20 TAPE To: mjacob@feral.com, wash@iconnect.co.ke Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> >> Sorry for my being daft. Here I attach the output from /var/log/messages after the test. > > Good. Exactly what I'm wanting to see.. So... The Sense Key 9 being returned > is "VENDOR SPECIFIC". W/O T20 docs I can't tell you what the issue is. > > So, the first thing the tape driver does when it sees a tape driver for the > first time is to make sure the tape is rewound. Clearly LOAD(to BOT) is > failing. With 5/24 as the ASC/ASCQ, I'm sure somebody at HP *MEANT* to use > Sense Key 5 (Illegal Command) but they just forgot their SCSI spec at home > that day. > > Now, the REWIND command (used alternately) is failing with Sense Key 2 (Not > Ready) and the ASC/ASCQ values are 'Medium Not Present'. So, you either don't > have a tape inserted in the drive or the drive doesn't like the tape at all. > > Things don't work w/o a tape inserted. Sorry to step into the middle of the conversation (got this from the archives), but did you folks ever sort that problem out ? I'm seeing the same thing here. uname details : FreeBSD falcon.home.hentschel.net 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Wed Jan 24 14:29:12 PST 2001 dmesg snipped : sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 3.300MB/s transfers otherwise same symptons as for Wash. If there is anything else needed, please let me know. -Th [just subscribing to -scsi, so please cc: me] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message