Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 19:24:27 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CANNOT ACCESS T20 TAPE Message-ID: <20010121192427.K589@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101201524320.790-100000@zeppo.feral.com>; from "Matthew Jacob" on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 03:25:47PM -0800 References: <20010119210817.B14078@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101201524320.790-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
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* Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> [20010121 02:26]: writing on the subject 'Re: CANNOT ACCESS T20 TAPE' Matthew> Matthew> I have a T20 with 3.00 f/w which works just peacy in -current. Matthew> Matthew> I know you said things worked fine under 3.4 and now don't work when you Matthew> upgraded to 4.2- but I have to say that this seems very unlikely somehow. It Matthew> seems like your tape drive has died. Please retry 3.4 and see what's up with Matthew> that and let me know. Is it easy for a tape drive to die? I still hope it is some other issue because I did a full backup 2 days before the upgrade and we've not had any power failures or something that I can suspect. Okay the only problem here now is that it is a SCSI tape and I do not have another readily available system with a SCSI adapter to attach it to for a test. Well, whatever it is lemme think hard about it. I'll take one of the last options I always resort to when i have something like this. You know the Powell doctrine? (Yes, that Powell - General Colin Powell) - "Think hard before you act, act decisively when you do, and finish quickly" . Okay the last part might be a bit out of range but the first 2 definately are called for at this moment. I also hope that someone somewhere could have an idea or so. Or do you suppose I can try -CURRENT?? ;-) ..hmmm.. I am not at par with those running -CURRENT and this is a server that is relied upon by hundreds of clients - so I am just tied for now. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Once you start to romanticize something, it's usually over. -Prof. John von der Heide To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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