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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:54:13 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
To:        Henry Whincup <henry@techiebod.com>
Cc:        scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SCSI tape drive problems 
Message-ID:  <200112201954.fBKJsDg12052@aslan.scsiguy.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Dec 2001 18:22:30 GMT." <20011220181703.Y15407-100000@gw1.techiebod.com> 

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>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

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