Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 14:26:25 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> To: Keith Mitchell <kmitch@weenix.guru.org> Cc: gibbs@plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs), scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Archive Viper and 3940UW (bad Drive?) Message-ID: <199707021928.NAA21948@pluto.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jul 1997 13:41:04 EDT." <199707021741.NAA00740@weenix.guru.org>
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>In article <local.freebsd.scsi_199707021427.IAA14206@pluto.plutotech.com> you >wrote: >> >Lately I have been having trouble getting my tape drive to work at all. >> >I get BUS resets everytime I try to access the drive. > >> Can you try this patch??? > >I still get the errors. They appear to wait a little longer. I mean after >trying to access the drive, the LED from the SCSI controller goes on and >stays lit (solid) for about 10 seconds before reporting the errors. Before >they were pretty much instantaneous. Try going through all of the actions that are performed in st_close and increase the timeout. I've heard of the prevent causing problems which was why I bumped up the timeout value, but it could also be the writing of the filemarks that is causing your problems. >-- >Keith Mitchell Head Administrator: acm.vt.edu >Email: kmitch@weenix.guru.org PGP key available upon request >http://weenix.guru.org/~kmitch > Address and URL (c) 1997 Keith Mitchell - All Rights Reserved > Unauthorized use or duplication prohibited -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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