Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 20:40:48 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: Ken Whedbee <whedbee@digital.net> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scsi tape-drive and "extraneous data discarded, COMMAND FAILED" Message-ID: <19981119204048.20611@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <8767cc8p4d.fsf@digital.net>; from Ken Whedbee on Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 08:09:38PM -0500 References: <8767cc8p4d.fsf@digital.net>
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As Ken Whedbee wrote: > As you can see from the "dmesg" output below, FreeBSD is communicating > with the Wangtek. However, not well enough to do dumps and restores. > When the tape unit was internal to my case, I had no such error messages. > I now have the Wangtek set for scsi id 4. Probably your bus got too long. With that many devices and the attempt to run it with 20 MHz (for sd0), you're only allowed to have 1.5 m of cabling (in total). Perhaps you'd better spend a second controller for the external bus? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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