Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:40:07 -0800 From: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: teac mt-2st/n50 Message-ID: <199803112140.NAA21904@myrtle1.bogs.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:24:29 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980311112336.15994B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.980311112336.15994B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>, Doug White cleopede: >On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Greg Shenaut wrote: > >> I have several of these scsi tape drives, and need to get them >> working with fbsd225. They are 160MB DCAS (data cassette) drives, >> and I have been using them successfully for years with DOS and >> BSD/OS, so I have lots of data stored on cassettes which I need to >> get access to. When I try to access the tapes, I get an "illegal >> request" message, plus an "oops not queued" when I try to read or >> write. > >Either it's not really SCSI or your termination may be off. Neither of these are likely. >What does the probe message for this device look like? (aic0:4:0): "TEAC MT-2ST/N50 RV E" type 1 removable SCSI 1 st0(aic0:4:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x8, drive empty or, if I put a tape in the drive, the last part is ...density code 0x88, 512-byte blocks, write enabled I have tried using the command mt -f /dev/st0ctl.0 with the following parameters: ...blocksize 512 (this gets rid of the "bad request, must be between 0 and 0" error) ...density 0 ...density 0x88 ...density 0x8 ...density 0x80 (this gets an error from the drive) When I try to read the drive using the command dd if=/dev/rst0 bs=512 count=1 | od I get an EIO error from dd, and the console error message says "ILLEGAL REQUEST" and "oops not queued". -Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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