From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Dec 24 05:51:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA03507 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 05:51:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from persprog.com (persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA03485 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 05:51:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@mmrd.com) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id IAA21869; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 08:36:43 -0500 Received: from dave.ppi.com(192.2.2.6) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma021867; Thu Dec 24 08:36:13 1998 Message-ID: <3682434A.978957F9@mmrd.com> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 08:36:10 -0500 From: "David W. Alderman" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: "krell@krellonline.com" , "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: SCSI TAPE Drives References: <01BE2E75.55F73BF0.rlinane@krellonline.com> <19981224122552.F12346@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The 1520 is a fairly modest SCSI card. Could this have something to do with the problem? Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 23 December 1998 at 13:08:29 -0500, Richard J. Linane wrote: > > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.7. > > > > I have an Adaptec 1520 SCSI CONTROLLER and a TANDBURG TDC 3800 SCSI Tape Drive. > > > > Both the controller card and the tape drive are sensed and recognized. > > And the tape is showing that it is write enabled. > > > > When I try to list the contents of the tape using the command > > > > tar t > > the system appears to hang. > > > > A few minutes later I start receiving an error message > > > > /kernel: st0(aic0:2:0): timed out > > > > This will continue until I reboot the system. > > > > I am unable to kill the process > > > > tar t > > > > The drive and the card are known to be in good working order. > > > > I had removed them this morning from a system running SCO UNIX. > > I have one of these drives too, and I've never had any trouble with > it. The symptoms look like SCSI chain problems. What else do you > have connected? How is it terminated? > > Greg > Dave Alderman - Democracy should not be capital intensive. dave@persprog.com is changing to dave@mmrd.com dwa@atlantic.net -or- dwald@earthlink.net -or- dalderman@compuserve.com (much to my shame) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message