From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 10:48:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1B1B16A573 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:48:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.mi.celestial.com (dagney.celestial.com [192.136.111.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E9D43FE3 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:48:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@celestial.com) Received: by mail.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id F1D5511EB1A; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:48:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:48:41 -0800 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20031112184841.GB65978@alexis.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: Newbie: Touchy Travan tape drive rewind problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:48:43 -0000 On Wed, Nov 12, 2003, Christophe wrote: >I've installed FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on a Dell 400SC with an ATA Travan >tape drive, accessing it through /dev/ast0. On linear writing >operations, it works great... but there appears to be some kind of >timeout problem on rewind: A good general rule about using the Travan tape drives is -- don't. We used them for about a year until they started giving all kinds of wierd problems that appeared to be hardware related, timeouts, not able to read tapes after they were written, etc. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering. -- Doctor Who, "Face of Evil"