Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 11:02:09 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem w/dump & Archive (Conner) Python tape drives Message-ID: <199606241802.LAA13812@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jun 1996 07:11:17 CDT." <199606241211.HAA03715@luke.pmr.com>
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>As it turns out, the problems I was having were related to the >disks I was trying to dump, not the tape drive. In despiration I >tried dumping the same disks to /dev/null and had the same hang. >I believe I have some problem on the SCSI bus that that the disks >on that system that dump must trigger. I moved the tape drive to >another system (I only had it on that one for testing) and it worked >ok. If its hanging both the NCR and the 2940, I'd guess so. >BTW, since you have one of these tape drives, perhaps you can tell >me how to enable/disable compression. I had hoped that it would >default to compress on but so far it appears to not want to write >more than appx 4GB on a tape so it looks like it might have >compression off. Its in one of the mode pages. I don't recall off hand, but it was recently added to the scsi.8 mode page table so you should be able to find it in share/scsi_modes and use scsi.8 to tweak it. > >Thanks, >-- >Bob Willcox >bob@luke.pmr.com >Austin, TX -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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