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From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: kern/1929: HP C1536A DAT drive errors 
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The following reply was made to PR kern/1929; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To: Tony Li <tli@jnx.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/1929: HP C1536A DAT drive errors 
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 12:18:34 -0800

 >
 >   >This occurs on multiple tapes so we have either a kernel problem or a driv
 >e
 >   >failure.  We don't have access to a second drive to eliminate the drive
 >   >failure case.  As this started coincident with a kernel change....
 >
 >   The only thing that has changed recently is the aic7xxx driver, but
 >   I find it hard to believe that it would suddenly report media errors
 >   (a status indication returned from the drive) because of these changes.
 >   Why not boot the old kernel and see if your problem still occurs?  I
 >   think your drive needs to have its heads cleaned or to be sent in for
 >   service.
 >
 >We've cleaned the drive repeatedly, to no effect.  We would love to boot
 >the old kernel, but (guess what?) it's on tape.  ;-)
 >
 >Tony
 
 Boot a SNAP kernel.
 
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 Justin T. Gibbs
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