Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:34:56 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: ip@mcc.ac.uk Cc: Font <font@couscous.fortdearborn.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu, carlos@gutierrez.com Subject: Re: UPDATE: DAT always writes short tapes Message-ID: <3724CDF0.E692338@3-cities.com> References: <199904261011.LAA53422@albatross.mcc.ac.uk>
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Ian Pallfreeman wrote: > > > Here's an update on the DAT tape situation. To recap, my WangDAT 3400DX > > DDS-2 drive errors out after dumping about 1.5 Gbytes of data, whether on > > a 90m or 120m tape. This is under FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE. > > FWIW, I have a similar situation. One box has a Sony SDT-5000, which was > happily writing 4GB or more with FreeBSD 2.2.8, and which now refuses to > write more than 1.5GB. Another box has an HP 1533 which continues to write > 4GB plus. > > > Doug White suggested I use -B and/or -b flags to indicate tape length. > > Nah, it's something to do with the mode sensing/setting. > > > Current: X3B5/88-185A variable 61000 DCLZ > > The WangDAT (and my Sony) are reporting that they're DDS-1 drives, and are > refusing to write DDS-2. > > > Therefore I surmise that either the WangDAT isn't responding to > > fairly-standard SCSI commands properly, or it's somehow internally broken > > for writing. > > > > So, while I have more information, I still don't know what to do next to > > get the WangDAT tape drive to work. It seems a shame to put it out to > > pasture just yet. > > Can you set the jumpers on the drive to _always_ operate in DDS-2 mode? That > might be worth trying, if you're not terribly bothered about 60/90m tapes. > I've been trying to get the jumper settings for my SDT-5000 for weeks, but > nobody seems to have them. :-( Sony has information on using their fax-back at http://www.ita.sel.sony.com/support/storage/faqs/td.html. The web page implies that they have a document with the jumper information in it. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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