From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Aug 23 17:00:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA26485 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:00:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwnexus.wa.com (nwnexus.wa.com [192.135.191.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA26478 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.statsci.com by nwnexus.wa.com with SMTP id AA23350 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Fri, 23 Aug 1996 16:59:59 -0700 Received: from statsci.com [206.63.206.4] with smtp by main.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0uu68U-000JS6C; Fri, 23 Aug 96 16:59 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 tape driver References: <199608231050.FAA19498@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Aug 1996 05:50:22 -0500." <199608231050.FAA19498@bonkers.taronga.com> Reply-To: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 16:59:34 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) wrote: > FreeBSD and the 8200 don't get along. I get a lot of bogus errors and > hangs from an Adaptec 2940 and a 1540B. I assumed it was because the 8200 > is sorta halfway between SCSI1 and SCSI2. Mine works fine on my 2.1.0 system. Maybe its a difference the drive firmware dates? Mine IDs itself as an EXB-8200 rev 265T and a manufacture date in late 1994 (going from my [frequently foggy :-)] memory). I don't pound it hard - just the occasional backups that I remember to do of my home system. Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > My only "problem" was that I could not have the same information from > the tape as I has in a SunOS/Solaris, while using mt status. I think that I've been able to accomplish that doing explicit blocksizes with 'dd' and 'mt setblocksize' (I forget the exact 'mt' subcommand name - my FreeBSD system is at home & I'm not right now). So, on SunOS, something like this: tar cvf - . | dd of=/dev/rst1 obs=32768 and on FreeBSD: mt setblocksize 32768 dd if=/dev/rst0 ibs=32768 | tar xvf - or something like that (apply the same memory comment from above). If there's any commands I could run or file contents I could send FYI, just let me know. Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org