From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 23 22:00:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA23559 for current-outgoing; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 22:00:06 -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 WAA23543; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 22:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606240500.WAA23543@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Bob Willcox cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org (freebsd-current) Subject: Re: Problem w/dump & Archive (Conner) Python tape drives In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jun 1996 16:16:01 CDT." <199606222116.QAA18967@luke.pmr.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 22:00:02 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I am having problems trying to run dump to either of my Archive >Python DAT tape drives (one is an autoloader, the other not). >Right at the time dump claims to be dumping the directories dump >goes into an infinite wait. If I cancel (via Cntl-C) the dump >command the system will eventually require rebooting do to (false?) >errors on the disk drive (which is on a different NCR 810 SCSI >controller). > >I have tried this with both of my tape drives and with both an NCR >810 adapter and an Adaptec 2940 adapter with the same results. > >Writing to/reading from the drives with tar and/or team works fine. > >The system is a 166MHz Pentium with a Triton 2 MB running -current >(as of 6/20). Is anybody out there able to get dump to work with >these tape drives (mine are both DDS-2 [4/8gb] drives)? The changes I just made to st.c today may affect your problem. My DDS-2 phython works fine with dump now, although I never tested it with the old code (it was on my -stable box). >Thanks, >-- >Bob Willcox >bob@luke.pmr.com >Austin, TX -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================