From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 11:13:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6145216A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:13:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jon@witchspace.com) Received: from mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896A643D55 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:13:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jon@witchspace.com) Received: from aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050608111321.OIMQ6745.mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:13:21 +0100 Received: from witchspace.com ([81.110.67.239]) by aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with SMTP id <20050608111321.HJMM29707.aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@witchspace.com> for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:13:21 +0100 Received: (qmail 30120 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2005 11:18:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.1?) (192.168.0.1) by dookie.home with SMTP; 8 Jun 2005 11:18:57 -0000 Message-ID: <42A6D2BE.4040305@witchspace.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:13:02 +0100 From: Jonathan Belson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Problems with Dell/Seagate tape drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:13:23 -0000 Hiya I've installed FreeBSD-Stable on a Dell PowerEdge 600SC, and I'm having real problems getting the tape drive to work reliably. It's a Dell rebadged ATA Seagate/Certance STT2401A As I mentioned in a previous e-mail, I get the message 'ast0: FAILURE - REZERO timed out' when tar-ing files to it (after the files have been written, but before the drive starts to rewind). That message seems harmless enough, but I also keep getting intermittent kernel panics when I try to access it: 'supervisor read, page not present'. Has anyone else used this particular model of tape drive? If so, did you have any problems with it? I've tried switching cables and using master/slave/cable select, but it hasn't made any difference. Unfortunately, I don't have a spare tape drive to try in case it's a hardware fault. Cheers, --Jon http://www.witchspace.com