Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:14:56 -0500 From: Brian Ristuccia <brianr@osiris.978.org> To: Osma Ahvenlampi <oa@spray.fi> Cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to force a bus reset? Message-ID: <19990108091456.N662@osiris.978.org> In-Reply-To: <m3n23u41wj.fsf@dhcp-144.spray.fi>; from Osma Ahvenlampi on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 10:14:20AM %2B0200 References: <m3n23u41wj.fsf@dhcp-144.spray.fi>
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On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 10:14:20AM +0200, Osma Ahvenlampi wrote: > I'm experiencing serious problems using a DDS-3 DAT drive on a Dell > PowerEdge 2300 (AIC 7890/7860, tape drive on the narrow > bus). Apparently as an end-of-tape is detected, the drive goes crazy > and any command sent to it (save for the status command issued by 'mt > status') will result in an error. My log from last night is filled > with this: > > Jan 8 09:45:03 safir kernel: Additional sense indicates Internal target failure > Jan 8 09:45:06 safir kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Current error st09:00: sense key Hardware Error > > Real hardware error is pretty much ruled out, since the drive was just > replaced because of this (I guess the old one wasn't broken after > all). > > I can't even begin to try to figure this one out. But if I knew how to > force a device/bus reset, I might see if the drive recovers.. > > Driver version is 5.1.4. > I've been having similar woes with my Archive DAT changer. When it hits end-of-tape it gets into an error condition that can only be cleared by removing and re-inserting the magazine. I work around this by making uncompressed backups that are slightly shorter than the tapes. (and thus waste a lot of tapes) -- Brian Ristuccia brianr@osiris.978.org bristucc@baynetworks.com bristucc@cs.uml.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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