Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 00:00:59 +0100 From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP T4000s Tape Drive problems Message-ID: <18502.199907072300@doyle.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Jon Drukman's message of Wed, 07 Jul 1999 15:16:31 -0700
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> I've got one of these HP Colorado T4000s SCSI tape drives I had one of those. In fact, I had four of them, one after the other, and they all had the same fault except for the one that I didn't even try because some of scsi pins were shorted out with solder. From the manufacturing dates it seemed clear that HP were sending me other people's returns. Eventually I just gave up - a complete waste of money. The problem was that they would appear to write correctly, but when reading they would start shoe-shining and eventually just stop, typically a few hundred MB in. This happened in DOS too, so it wasn't any kind of BSD problem. Apart from that :-) it worked, streaming most of the time at about 500KB/s (which is what it should be). I fixed a couple of minor problems (this was back in 2.2, so the SCSI code is completely changed) and if you look in the archives you should be able to find them. One was a harmless error message because it didn't support locking the drive, I don't remember the other. Someone from HP was unofficially very helpful about the SCSI problems, but the hardware and quality control just sucked. And they're horribly noisy too. -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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