Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 20:57:03 -0500 (EST) From: Steven Ames <steve@news.cioe.com> To: steve@news.cioe.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI/Tape problem? Message-ID: <199801090157.UAA00259@news.cioe.com>
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> > I'm encountering a problem that I just can't seem to solve. > > I have a FreeBSD system that I've been using to backup my > > network for quite a while. It is using an Adaptec 2940 card > > and an Exabyte 8205 tape backup. I'm using 'amanda' to do > > the backups onto 160M tapes. Alrighty... > > > > A while back the system started to lock up during the backup > > process. Also the command 'mt erase' would never terminate. > > You might run into some timeout situation. I have an (admittedly > somewhat older) 8200 drive and it takes ages to do an erase. > > Why not omit the 'mt erase' altogether? The drive will erase your > tape anyhow when you start writing to it from BOT. Hrm... I was unclear. The 'mt erase' is obviously only a symptom. The backup process still causes my machine to lockup... -Steve
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