Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 16:43:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: rama@easynet.fr (David Ramahefason) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hardware Users), scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems with an HP DAT 35480 A 1109 Message-ID: <199610031443.QAA29511@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961002103149.345A-100000@casimir.easynet.fr> from "David Ramahefason" at Oct 2, 96 10:48:03 am
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David Ramahefason writes: > > On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> David Ramahefason wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> I'm trying to have an Amanda server on my FBSD box, but seem to have >>> problems with my DAT drive... >>> When I issuse a tar cvf /dev/nrst0 * I always get an I/O error. I've >>> tryied different tapes, but got the same result. >>> Did I forgot something on my config, is the driver buggy ? >>> Please HEEEEELP.... I'm working on it for a week now. >> what KIND of error? >> > > Well, it starts to backup and few seconds later I got a tar error: > unable to write : I/O error. > If I take a look to the console log, > > /kernel:st0(bt0:3:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28, 0 > /kernel:st0(bt0:3:0): Not ready to transition, medium may have changed > > and sometimes I get: > /kernel:st0(bt0:3:0): HARDWARE FAILURE asc:44,0 Internal target failure It's broke. It must be more than 3 months old. > Where is the problem ? Is the tape drive dead ? Yes. > Oh, my SCSI card is a Buslogic 946 (PCI) I don't think that makes any difference. I have been through a long line of 34780s, and they have all died on me. The last one is just doing it now. We've been through this discussion a number of times: it's not just my bad luck, they're crappy drives. You *could* try multiple passes of the cleaning cassette. If you're lucky with that, I'd be interested to hear it. Greg
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