Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:29:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Sam <freep@thecity.sfsu.edu> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape problems. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008222127580.22914-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <NCBBJPDLBJCLBBFADHOMEEAGDHAA.freep@thecity.sfsu.edu>
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As I said to you in private mail, which you seem to not read, I don't believe that early warning is occurring. I asked you whether or not the workaround of specifying a tape length (that I told you) is working for you. -matt On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Sam wrote: > Right now we are using a Tekram DC-315U SCSI Adapter with an HP SureStore > 24I tape drive. We are currently trying to figure out where our problems are > emanating from (be it the driver, our misconfiguration, or the hardware). > The problem is that whenever we attempt to use 'dump -0au -h 0 -d 61000 -f > /dev/nrsa0 /home' and it reaches the end of the tape, it does not prompt for > a new tape, instead it freezes the tape and gives us the following error: > > DUMP: write error 3725120 blocks into volume 1 > > and this in /var/log/messages (nothing relevant has been omitted): > > Aug 14 20:08:55 sol /kernel: (sa0:tekram_trm0:0:3:0): failed to write > terminating f > ilemark(s) > Aug 14 20:08:56 sol /kernel: (sa0:tekram_trm0:0:3:0): tape is now frozen- > use an OF > FLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. > > In addition to this problem we cannot use restore on archives that we have > dumped without specifying the tape density to dump (-d 61000). It may be > noted that the drivers for our Tekram DC-315U SCSI Adapter are not part of > the FreeBSD kernel, but Tekram provides a patch to the kernel source on > their website. > > We can backup fine under Windows with the same hardware, and we have tried > both FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE and 4.1-STABLE. We are really enjoying using > FreeBSD, and would hate for a problem like this to force us to use that > other open-source operating system. > > Any input would be greatly appreciated. > > Free Print Shop > 3145 23rd St > San Francisco, 94110 > Phone: 415.648.3222 > Fax: 415.648.4466 > Website: http://freeprintshop.org > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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