Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 13:48:02 -0600 (CST) From: Wayne Anschutz <wayne@crinc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: usb tape drive issue Message-ID: <202001031348.aa02716@cri450.crinc.com>
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Folks, I'm new at this bsd OS, but did get an xinuos open server 10 operating which is BSD. I've managed to get everything working with some trial and error picking the correct ports for necessary libraries. The BSD os is stable version 11.3. The problem popped up when I tried to make a backup tape using a usb dat160 internal drive. After testing a lot I found that the drive would read tar and dd formats correctly. It did only a flawed read on cpio tapes. It always failed on any write with CAM errors and scsi errors. Research on the web proved that this is not an uncommon problem with usb storage devices. I am not interested in being a freeBSD test bed! I need a stable OS for my customers. My first question - would updateing to stable 12.1 solve this? If so what are the updateing pit falls? Would switching to a dat160 scsi lvd drive solve the problem? Thanks all, Wayne Anschutz Computer Resources, Inc.
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