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Date:      Fri, 4 Jul 1997 12:30:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Keith Mitchell <kmitch@weenix.guru.org>
To:        gibbs@plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs)
Cc:        scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Archive Viper and 3940UW (bad Drive?)
Message-ID:  <199707041630.MAA07734@weenix.guru.org>
In-Reply-To: <199707021928.NAA21948@pluto.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at "Jul 2, 97 02:26:25 pm"

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> 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.

After doing this, I noticed that some of my tapes worked and some didn't.
After "erasing" all of them they all seem to worked (even on an unmodifed
kernel).  I was under (I guess false) impression that you didn't have to
"erase" them.  In the amanda cycle, it just rewinds the tapes and overwrites
the data on them.  I guess this added a little extra to the filemark or
something similar that caused it to take to long (and thus timeout) on the
device close.

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