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Subject: Trouble with a DLT7000 tape drive
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Hello all,

I have found some errors that I get on my tape drive. I am wondering if
anyone would know if this is SCSI card, cable, tape drive or tape issue,
or maybe something different all together. I am using DLT Type-IV tapes
and this is on a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE system.

TIA,

Jay

dmesg output

ahc0: <Adaptec 2902/04/10/15/20/30C SCSI adapter> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem
0xdffff000-0xdfffffff irq 11 at device 18.0 on pci0
aic7850: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs
sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
sa0: <QUANTUM DLT7000 2565> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)
ch0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0
ch0: <ADIC VLS DLT 0305> Removable Changer SCSI-2 device
ch0: 3.300MB/s transfers
ch0: 7 slots, 1 drive, 1 picker, 1 portal
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10 0 0 0 2 0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:2 csi:0,0,1,40 asc:c,0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Write error
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): failed to write terminating filemark(s)
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND info:ffffa000 csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND info:ffffa000 csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND info:2000 csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND info:ffffa000 csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM
command to clear this state.