Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 08:53:50 +0200 From: "Loic Mahe'" <mahe@twam.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with wt0 Message-ID: <3743B17E.4FA9918F@twam.com>
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Hello, I've just installed an old wt0 tape drive (Tandberg Data) for QIC-02 tapes on my FreeBSD 3.1. The controller is a V551 card. The drive is recognized at boot time : > wt0 at 0x300-0x301 irq 5 drq 1 on isa > wt0: type <Wangtek> But, if I try to use it with tar : tar -cvf /dev/rwt0 <directory> (or /dev/rwt0d since I use 150 Mb tapes), the tape drive seems to freeze after a few minutes of saving (the prompt doesn't come back) and stays quiet. I have to remove the tape to release the prompt (even kill can't supress the process). Once, the following message even came out, when I tried to read the (incomplete) archive I had just made : > /kernel: wt0: Block not located and the entire FreeBSD system simply *crashed* (in fact I found the message in /var/log/messages after reboot) !! On the opposite, if I try to save only a small directory, tar seems to work well. Is the tape drive damaged (it's hard for me to believe that a damaged drive could make the system crash, but ...), or the wt driver broken, or am I using the wrong device (between /dev/rwt0 or /dev/rwt0d) ? Thanks in advance (reply by mail please) Loic, Toulouse/France To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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