From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 17:15:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7226A16A403 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:15:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD1D43CA0 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:14:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.6/8.13.8) id kBKHEvw1014846; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:14:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:14:57 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Mark Kane Message-ID: <20061220171456.GE41207@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20061219221610.4bcdb4c4@localhost> <20061220051644.GB41207@dan.emsphone.com> <20061220020947.135537e1@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061220020947.135537e1@localhost> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drive Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:15:00 -0000 In the last episode (Dec 20), Mark Kane said: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006, at 23:16:45 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > Timeouts and unexpected busfree errors like these are indicative of > > cabling or termination problems. I don't think DLTs auto-terminate, > > for example, so try putting an external terminator on the 2nd plug on > > the back of the unit (or if it's an internal drive with one plug, > > terminate the cable the drive's plugged into). Once you get those > > errors sorted out, see whether you still get incorrect volume full > > messages. > > Thanks very much for the replies. Both drives are external, and they > both have terminators on the back. The setup is like this: > > The DDS autoloader is connected to the back of the Adaptec card via a > new external HD68 cable and the terminator that came with the drive > is on the second plug of the unit. > > The Sun DLT drive is connected via an external HD50 cable to an adaptor > that turns it into an internal cable which is then connected to the > Adaptec card internally. It has a Sun terminator on the second plug on > the unit. > > The cable that connects the DDS autoloader is brand new. It's not a > major brand name, but it's listed as "double shielded", "UL20276 > listed", etc. The cable that connects the DLT unit is an older Adaptec > one (possibly used) purchased for a few dollars locally. I could > understand if that cable was a problem for writing using that drive, but > having the issue on both drives like this with two separate cables just > seems like it's something else. > > By the way, the green LEDs on both terminators are illuminated so they > should be working. All that looks okay to me. Try reposting your question to the freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org list. > With the DDS drive, it does not give any errors to /var/log/messages > like the DLT drive does. cpio just quits with that "Internal > overflow, aborting" error (which doesn't happen with the DLT). Do you > guys know specifically what that message means? With the DLT drive, > cpio actually gives the volume full errors but with the DDS it's only > "Internal Overflow" and nothing else anywhere that I can see. > Internet searches for the "Internal Overflow" message have not turned > up much helpful information. If you look at the source to cpio, you can see in copyout.c, that message is printed if a sprintf'ed header is larger than cpio expected it to be. My guess is one of your files is over 10gb and the file size overflowed its 11-digit field. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com