From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed May 19 23:53:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mipnet.mipnet.fr (mipnet.mipnet.fr [194.51.103.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C2C14E7D for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 23:53:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mahe@twam.com) Received: from twam.com (sad1-11.mipnet.fr [195.101.68.141]) by mipnet.mipnet.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA12594 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 08:58:12 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3743B17E.4FA9918F@twam.com> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 08:53:50 +0200 From: "Loic Mahe'" Organization: TWAM Informatique X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, fr-FR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with wt0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 But, if I try to use it with tar : tar -cvf /dev/rwt0 (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