From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Aug 29 15:11: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from smtp014.mail.yahoo.com (smtp014.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D94B37B403 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 15:10:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kc5vdj@yahoo.com) Received: from mkc-65-28-47-209.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.28.47.209) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Aug 2001 22:10:57 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B8D6870.4010804@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:10:56 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tape testers wanted for freebsd-current References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tested and seems to work fine on a HP C1533 DDS-2 drive. A mysterious filesystem corruption of /var happened the day after I did a two-tape dump, and the fixed tape driver was a godsend! I would have reported back last night, but some moron driving a backhoe dealt a 22-hour fatal blow to Time Warner/Roadrunner locally, and it all was restored about half an hour ago... Thanks Matt! Matthew Jacob wrote: > 'ullo? anyone 'ome? > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > >>I've made some changes which cleared up problems with EOM handling and >>correctly doing things with QIC. I hope. I have done a lot of testing, but >>this is an area which, sad to say, can take a lot to get right and it's easy >>to miss things. >> >>I've done several passes of my tape pattern tester for: >> >>TANDBERG SLR5 4/8GB >>ARCHIVE Python 29279-XXX >>DEC TLZ09 >>EXABYTE 8500S >>EXABYTE 8505XL >>HP DDS3 4mm >>DEC DLT4000 >>QIC-150 >> >>and I did spanned tape backups and restores and compares for the TANDBERG and >>the ARCHIVE. I also did a couple of runs using an eot model of 1 even for >>variable drives like the DDS3 4mm. >> >>In the process of all this testing I killed my DLT4000, killed one Exabyte >>8505 and had to buy on EBay a couple of more drives. I think at this point I'd >>like some of the actual users of tape stuff in FreeBSD to help out and see if >>things work for them or not. >> >>If you all would be so kind- could you fetch >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~mjacob/scsi_sa.c >> >>and give it a shot? I'll be away until next wednesday (I have to go to >>Minneapolis on a business trip)- and can't easily check email while I'm away- >>but I really would like feedback- thanks! >> >>-matt >> >> >> >> >> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > > -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message