From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 01:05:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA12188 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 01:05:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from cls.net (freeside.cls.de [192.129.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA12175 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 01:05:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.cls.net (Smail3.1.29.1) from allegro.lemis.de (192.109.197.134) with smtp id ; Thu, 11 Jan 96 09:02 GMT From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Reply-To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA04417; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:52:54 +0100 Message-Id: <199601110852.JAA04417@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Good (DAT) Backup Device ?? To: eric@cse.ucsc.edu (Eric Rosen) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:52:54 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: <4cvck6$dhb@ruby.cse.ucsc.edu> from "Eric Rosen" at Jan 9, 96 07:43:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Eric Rosen writes: > > Bill Webb wrote: >>> I am looking for a DAT backup device to over between 4 to 8 Gb. >> >> I've got a HP 34580 at home and a HP C1533A on a work machine. I've been >> quite happy with both. > > What SCSI host adapter are you using? Recently, our HP C1533A has > started hanging our server's kernel when accessed. This change in behavoir > appears to have started after I upgraded the SCSI host adapter > from an Adaptec 1542CF to a BusLogic BT-946C. Prior to the upgrade, > the C1533A was working fine. Interesting. See my previous mail. Maybe this is a BusLogic problem and not a (Wang, HP, insert your vendor here) problem. How did it hang? I had a problem where the drive wrote junk to the tape and then hung trying to read it. Greg