Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 19:35:59 -0800 (PST) From: thomas@hentschel.net To: mjacob@feral.com, wash@iconnect.co.ke Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CANNOT ACCESS T20 TAPE Message-ID: <200102030336.f133a1H25367@falcon.home.hentschel.net>
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>> >> Sorry for my being daft. Here I attach the output from /var/log/messages after the test. > > Good. Exactly what I'm wanting to see.. So... The Sense Key 9 being returned > is "VENDOR SPECIFIC". W/O T20 docs I can't tell you what the issue is. > > So, the first thing the tape driver does when it sees a tape driver for the > first time is to make sure the tape is rewound. Clearly LOAD(to BOT) is > failing. With 5/24 as the ASC/ASCQ, I'm sure somebody at HP *MEANT* to use > Sense Key 5 (Illegal Command) but they just forgot their SCSI spec at home > that day. > > Now, the REWIND command (used alternately) is failing with Sense Key 2 (Not > Ready) and the ASC/ASCQ values are 'Medium Not Present'. So, you either don't > have a tape inserted in the drive or the drive doesn't like the tape at all. > > Things don't work w/o a tape inserted. Sorry to step into the middle of the conversation (got this from the archives), but did you folks ever sort that problem out ? I'm seeing the same thing here. uname details : FreeBSD falcon.home.hentschel.net 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Wed Jan 24 14:29:12 PST 2001 dmesg snipped : sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 sa0: <HP T20 3.01> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 3.300MB/s transfers otherwise same symptons as for Wash. If there is anything else needed, please let me know. -Th [just subscribing to -scsi, so please cc: me] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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