From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 2 00:02:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA03212 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 00:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA03207 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 00:02:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA01773; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 02:02:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19970602020220.29845@shell.futuresouth.com> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 02:02:20 -0500 From: Tim Tsai To: Robert Shady Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archive Tape Autochanger References: <199706011447.KAA02181@shell.id.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199706011447.KAA02181@shell.id.net>; from Robert Shady on Sun, Jun 01, 1997 at 10:47:11AM -0400 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jun 01, 1997 at 10:47:11AM -0400, Robert Shady wrote: > Has anyone gotten the CSC special Archive DAT auto-changer to work > with FreeBSD yet? What did you have to do to get it to work? I > am starting to wonder if mine is just defective. I'm running 2.2.2 > release, and when I load a tape, it spits it back out a few seconds > later, the drive displays "CHK MAG", and the FreeBSD box reports > ERROR: Vendor specific ASCQ. Under different versions of FreeBSD > I have at least been able to load tapes, and run small backups, but > now it won't even load the tape. Ours work fine under 3.0-CURRENT. Actually, I've had the drive in various versions of FreeBSD from 2.1.6 and never did it once give me the error that you reported. Tim FSCI