From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Dec 5 12:32:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA05236 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:32:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from vina-tech.com (vina-tech.com [207.242.96.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA05230; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:32:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott.watters@vina-tech.com) Received: from curious (curious.vina-tech.com [207.242.96.69]) by vina-tech.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA19854; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:31:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott.watters@vina-tech.com) Reply-To: "Scott Watters" From: "Scott Watters" To: Cc: Subject: Questions about mt and SCSI subsystem Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:30:16 -0800 Message-ID: <01bd01bc$98a6a760$4560f2cf@curious.vina-tech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to get Xbru 2000 (commercial archive/backup program) to work on FreeBSD 2.2.5 with a Adaptec 2940 and Archive Python. It seems that to append an archive to a tape, the xbru software does several "mt fsf" commands to determine how many "files" are on the tape. It expects, correctly I think, to receive an EOM (end of media) error when the tape gets to the end of recorded data. However mt never returns an error, but the kernel logs a message like this: Dec 3 17:42:14 newserver /kernel: st0(ahc0:6:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 1 (decimal) asc:0,5 End-of-data detected Has anyone had this problem? Is it a bug in the driver or mt? Any help would be appreciated so I can get multiple backups on a single tape. Thanks, Scott Watters scott.watters@vina-tech.com http://www.vina-tech.com