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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:52:54 +0100 (MET)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        eric@cse.ucsc.edu (Eric Rosen)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers)
Subject:   Re: Good (DAT) Backup Device ??
Message-ID:  <199601110852.JAA04417@allegro.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <4cvck6$dhb@ruby.cse.ucsc.edu> from "Eric Rosen" at Jan 9, 96 07:43:02 pm

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Eric Rosen writes:
>
> Bill Webb <webb@sharps.chelmsford.telebit.com> wrote:
>>> I am looking for a DAT backup device to over between 4 to 8 Gb.
>>
>> I've got a HP 34580 at home and a HP C1533A on a work machine. I've been
>> quite happy with both.
>
> What SCSI host adapter are you using?  Recently, our HP C1533A has
> started hanging our server's kernel when accessed.  This change in behavoir
> appears to have started after I upgraded the SCSI host adapter
> from an Adaptec 1542CF to a BusLogic BT-946C.  Prior to the upgrade,
> the C1533A was working fine.

Interesting.  See my previous mail.  Maybe this is a BusLogic problem
and not a (Wang, HP, insert your vendor here) problem.  How did it
hang?  I had a problem where the drive wrote junk to the tape and then
hung trying to read it.

Greg



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