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Date:      Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:29:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Sam <freep@thecity.sfsu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tape problems.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008222127580.22914-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <NCBBJPDLBJCLBBFADHOMEEAGDHAA.freep@thecity.sfsu.edu>

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As I said to you in private mail, which you seem to not read, I don't believe
that early warning is occurring. I asked you whether or not the workaround of
specifying a tape length (that I told you) is working for you.

-matt

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Sam wrote:

> Right now we are using a Tekram DC-315U SCSI Adapter with an HP SureStore
> 24I tape drive. We are currently trying to figure out where our problems are
> emanating from (be it the driver, our misconfiguration, or the hardware).
> The problem is that whenever we attempt to use 'dump -0au -h 0 -d 61000 -f
> /dev/nrsa0 /home' and it reaches the end of the tape, it does not prompt for
> a new tape, instead it freezes the tape and gives us the following error:
> 
>   DUMP: write error 3725120 blocks into volume 1
> 
> and this in /var/log/messages (nothing relevant has been omitted):
> 
> Aug 14 20:08:55 sol /kernel: (sa0:tekram_trm0:0:3:0): failed to write
> terminating f
> ilemark(s)
> Aug 14 20:08:56 sol /kernel: (sa0:tekram_trm0:0:3:0): tape is now frozen-
> use an OF
> FLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state.
> 
> In addition to this problem we cannot use restore on archives that we have
> dumped without specifying the tape density to dump (-d 61000). It may be
> noted that the drivers for our Tekram DC-315U SCSI Adapter are not part of
> the FreeBSD kernel, but Tekram provides a patch to the kernel source on
> their website.
> 
> We can backup fine under Windows with the same hardware, and we have tried
> both FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE and 4.1-STABLE. We are really enjoying using
> FreeBSD, and would hate for a problem like this to force us to use that
> other open-source operating system.
> 
> Any input would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Free Print Shop
> 3145 23rd St
> San Francisco, 94110
> Phone: 415.648.3222
> Fax: 415.648.4466
> Website: http://freeprintshop.org
> 
> 
> 
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