From owner-aic7xxx Sun May 9 23:13:26 1999 Delivered-To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Received: from safir.razorfish.fi (safir.razorfish.fi [195.197.152.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C982151A8 for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 23:13:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oa@razorfish.fi) Received: (qmail 24983 invoked from network); 10 May 1999 06:14:25 -0000 Received: from 144.dhcp.razorfish.fi (HELO dhcp-144.razorfish.fi) (oa@195.197.152.144) by safir.razorfish.fi with SMTP; 10 May 1999 06:14:25 -0000 To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: Resetting a tape drive on AIC7860 From: Osma Ahvenlampi Date: 10 May 1999 09:14:25 +0300 Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070084 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a DELL PowerEdge 2300 system running Linux 2.0.36 kernel and aic7xxx 5.1.15. An internal tape drive connected to the narrow interface goes to "tilt mode" if the tape ends during a backup. Sometimes (rarely) the problem situation goes away if I unload the tape driver (st.o) and eject the tape manually. Most times, the tape drive remains inaccessible (every access except 'mt status' responding with an error) until a reboot. You can imagine that rebooting the system because of this is annoying. Is there a way I could cause a device or bus reset on the narrow bus (which has the tape drive and a CD-ROM) without upsetting the software-RAID array on the wide aic7890 bus? -- Osma Ahvenlampi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message