Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 08:34:13 -0400 (EDT) From: jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu (John Fieber) To: gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: kern/614: SCSI tape timeout for forward space file is too short Message-ID: <199507141234.IAA11467@grendel.csc.smith.edu> In-Reply-To: <199507141100.EAA03785@freefall.cdrom.com> from "gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org" at Jul 14, 95 04:00:04 am
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gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org writes: > Finally multiple-files-per-tape is working on this tape > drive, so I started putting 4 dumps per tape. When I > went to recover something from the last dump > (restore ibsf 20 4 /dev/rst0), the "forward space file" > operation timed out, along with driver complaints about > "mailbox not free". Things went downhill rapidly as sd0 > contains important parts of the system, and it was getting > timeout errors also. Eventually it rebooted itself. With a 1542C and an Archive Viper 150 I get timeouts too. mt returns with an error but the tape goes merrily along its way, stopping at the correct place. I don't get any further however; subsequent operations work fine (or so it seems). -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ========== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===
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