From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Dec 21 4:46:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF82237B416 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 04:46:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from [62.49.229.110] (helo=gw1.techiebod.com) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 16HP4I-0008S4-0U; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:46:30 +0000 Received: by gw1.techiebod.com (zmail, from userid 1000) id 2CB2F1931D; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:46:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw1.techiebod.com (zmail) with ESMTP id 291DD36402; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:46:30 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:46:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Henry Whincup To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: "scsi@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problems In-Reply-To: <200112201954.fBKJsDg12052@aslan.scsiguy.com> Message-ID: <20011221124414.A35465-100000@gw1.techiebod.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Put the device on a windows box and upgraded the firmware (L201->L202)... all works! Don't know why but before I upgraded the firmware I tried the device under windows and it worked fine -- just as a by the way. Thanks for all your help Henry On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >I have tried other tapes -- but they all give the same problem. > >When you say "it appears that the transfer has completed", do you mean the >block has been written or that the transfer was completed? if the latter I >have found that it seems to write the first 20 blocks of any transfer >(that is I can read these off the tape later) but after that just stops. I meant that the data for that particular transaction was transferred across the bus, but the tape drive has not left the data phase to complete the command. >Is there anything else I can try? A tape drive firmware upgrade? -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message