Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 20:17:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za (Peter van Heusden) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EXA 8200 tape drive on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199808091817.UAA00829@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980809173215.283A-100000@leftside.wcape.school.za> from Peter van Heusden at "Aug 9, 98 05:32:27 pm"
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As Peter van Heusden wrote... > I'm trying to get a EXA 8200 tape drive working on FreeBSD. It is detected > fine by the kernel during startup, and I can do a 'mt status' on it, with > the following results: > > Present Mode: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable > ---------available modes--------- > Mode 0: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable > Mode 1: Density = X3.136-1986 Blocksize = 512 bytes > Mode 2: Density = X3.39-1986 Blocksize variable > Mode 3: Density = X3.54-1986 Blocksize variable > > However, I cannot write to it at all - even after a 'mt erase', I get the > following: > [del] > My system details are as follows: > > OS: FreeBSD 2.2.6 > System: 486 DX 4 120, NCR 53c810 SCSI controller (with 3 disk drives - > Conner CFP1080S, Seagate ST12400N and ST32155N as well as the tape drive > - disks are on ids 0, 1, 4, tape is on 6), > 24 mb RAM. > Is there anything else I can try to get this thing working, or should I > just give up on it? Well, not that it solves your problem, but I also have a 8200 on a ncr810 and that one works. Has done so for years. More specific it has firmware: Aug 7 22:17:20 yedi /kernel: (ncr1:3:0): "EXABYTE EXB-8200 2687" type 1 removable SCSI 1 Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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