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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:35:41 -0600
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [ TAPE TIMEOUT] Re: afio & SCB 0xc - timed out while idle
Message-ID:  <20001115193541.A13852@hamlet.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011151659250.96707-100000@beppo.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:15:20PM -0800
References:  <20001115183155.A11050@hamlet.nectar.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011151659250.96707-100000@beppo.feral.com>

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On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:15:20PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> Hmm. Save me some time/grief and check whether your tape drive is happy under
> freebsd. 

It's worked well with dump/restore for the past 13 months.  It is just
this odd behavior with afio -Z (software compression).

> Take the program below, compile it, put a scratch tape in the drive,
> execute 'mt -f /dev/nrsa0 status' (and send us the output) and then execute:
> 
> pat_test v -b 64k -r 1000 -n 10 -f /dev/nrsa0

  # ./pat_test -v -b 64k -r 10 -n 10 -f /dev/nsa0
  .......Rewind Tape
  ........Write Pass
  EOT at File 9 Record 1000 Offset 65536 (655360000 total bytes written)
  Elapsed Seconds: 501; Data Rate: 1.2475MB/s
  .......Rewind Tape
  .........Read Pass
  EOT at File 10 Record 0 Offset 0 (655360000 total bytes read)
  Elapsed Seconds: 190: Data Rate: 862316MB/s
  # mt status
  Mode      Density              Blocksize      bpi      Compression
  Current:  0x80                 variable       0        0x3
  ---------available modes---------
  0:        0x80                 variable       0        0x3
  1:        0x80                 variable       0        0x3
  2:        0x80                 variable       0        0x3
  3:        0x80                 variable       0        0x3
  ---------------------------------
  Current Driver State: at rest.
  ---------------------------------
  File Number: 11	Record Number: 1

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org


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