Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 09:39:22 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "David W. Alderman" <dave@mmrd.com> Cc: krell@pcnet.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI TAPE Drives Message-ID: <19981225093922.Z12346@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3682434A.978957F9@mmrd.com>; from David W. Alderman on Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 08:36:10AM -0500 References: <01BE2E75.55F73BF0.rlinane@krellonline.com> <19981224122552.F12346@freebie.lemis.com> <3682434A.978957F9@mmrd.com>
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On Thursday, 24 December 1998 at 8:36:10 -0500, David W. Alderman wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 23 December 1998 at 13:08:29 -0500, Richard J. Linane wrote: >>> I am running FreeBSD 2.2.7. >>> >>> I have an Adaptec 1520 SCSI CONTROLLER and a TANDBURG TDC 3800 SCSI Tape Drive. >>> >>> Both the controller card and the tape drive are sensed and recognized. >>> And the tape is showing that it is write enabled. >>> >>> When I try to list the contents of the tape using the command >>> >>> tar t >>> the system appears to hang. >>> >>> A few minutes later I start receiving an error message >>> >>> /kernel: st0(aic0:2:0): timed out >>> >>> This will continue until I reboot the system. >>> >>> I am unable to kill the process >>> >>> tar t >>> >>> The drive and the card are known to be in good working order. >>> >>> I had removed them this morning from a system running SCO UNIX. >> >> I have one of these drives too, and I've never had any trouble with >> it. The symptoms look like SCSI chain problems. What else do you >> have connected? How is it terminated? > > The 1520 is a fairly modest SCSI card. Could this have something to do with the > problem? Not directly, but the driver support is not spectacular either. But as I said, the message implies problems with the SCSI chain. The way it handles it could theoretically be a problem with the driver. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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