From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Dec 26 17:22:04 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA22529 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:22:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA22524 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:22:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id RAA04333; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:14:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <32C322D4.167EB0E7@whistle.com> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:13:56 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Felipe Rivera Marquez CC: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI bus reset References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Felipe Rivera Marquez wrote: > > Hi there. > > Configuration: > All the scsi devices are detected without a problem. When a try > to archive any filesystem on the tape with tar i get this error after 10 > seconds more or less. > > uha0: unexpected ha_status 0x96 (target status 0x0) > st0(uha0:1:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0 > st0(uha0:1:0): Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred > sd0(uha0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0 > sd0(uha0:0:0): Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred > , retries:4 > > and tar stops. > > Any ideas??? you have either a bad power supply, or a bad power connector to the tape drive.. (or a half dead tape drive) extra power drain caused a voltage drop which reset the drive. this is the error message a new drive makes when it starts up. If we're still booting we (obviously) ignore it.. it is not ignored at other times :)