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Date:      Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:48:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Javier Henderson <javier@KJSL.COM>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tape drive oddities
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006201647270.12031-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <14672.380.691352.782821@karenium.kjsl.com>

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Not a tape driver problem- sounds like either your termination is wrong on the
1542C (check via bios), or that there's something not quite right with the
adaptec 1542 driver.

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Javier Henderson wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> 	I recently picked up a Digital DLT drive (the exact
> model number is TH4AA).
> 
> 	I tried it with FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE and an Adaptec AHA1510A and
> it works fine.
> 
> 	I then switched to an AHA 1542C and things got funky. No
> matter what argument I used for -b, writes always failed one byte
> short of the block size. For example, if I did:
> 
> tar -c -b 10240 /usr
> 
> 	I would get an error message about only 10239 bytes being
> written.
> 
> 	I put the AHA1510A back on, and the thing works fine.
> 
> 	Any ideas? 
> 
> 
> -jav
> 
> 
> 
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