From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 24 11:02:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA13827 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 11:02:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA13812; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 11:02:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606241802.LAA13812@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Bob Willcox cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem w/dump & Archive (Conner) Python tape drives In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jun 1996 07:11:17 CDT." <199606241211.HAA03715@luke.pmr.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 11:02:09 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >As it turns out, the problems I was having were related to the >disks I was trying to dump, not the tape drive. In despiration I >tried dumping the same disks to /dev/null and had the same hang. >I believe I have some problem on the SCSI bus that that the disks >on that system that dump must trigger. I moved the tape drive to >another system (I only had it on that one for testing) and it worked >ok. If its hanging both the NCR and the 2940, I'd guess so. >BTW, since you have one of these tape drives, perhaps you can tell >me how to enable/disable compression. I had hoped that it would >default to compress on but so far it appears to not want to write >more than appx 4GB on a tape so it looks like it might have >compression off. Its in one of the mode pages. I don't recall off hand, but it was recently added to the scsi.8 mode page table so you should be able to find it in share/scsi_modes and use scsi.8 to tweak it. > >Thanks, >-- >Bob Willcox >bob@luke.pmr.com >Austin, TX -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================