From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Dec 23 17:56:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09977 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:56:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09970 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:56:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA10107; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:25:50 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA14706; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:25:52 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981224122552.F12346@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:25:52 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "krell@krellonline.com" , "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: SCSI TAPE Drives References: <01BE2E75.55F73BF0.rlinane@krellonline.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <01BE2E75.55F73BF0.rlinane@krellonline.com>; from Richard J. Linane on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 01:08:29PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 23 December 1998 at 13:08:29 -0500, Richard J. Linane wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.7. > > I have an Adaptec 1520 SCSI CONTROLLER and a TANDBURG TDC 3800 SCSI Tape Drive. > > Both the controller card and the tape drive are sensed and recognized. > And the tape is showing that it is write enabled. > > When I try to list the contents of the tape using the command > > tar t > the system appears to hang. > > A few minutes later I start receiving an error message > > /kernel: st0(aic0:2:0): timed out > > This will continue until I reboot the system. > > I am unable to kill the process > > tar t > > The drive and the card are known to be in good working order. > > I had removed them this morning from a system running SCO UNIX. I have one of these drives too, and I've never had any trouble with it. The symptoms look like SCSI chain problems. What else do you have connected? How is it terminated? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message