From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 31 03:28:58 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA15084 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 03:28:58 -0800 Received: from ee.ubc.ca (fs3.ee.ubc.ca [137.82.52.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA15078 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 03:28:56 -0800 Received: from rwd6.ee.ubc.ca by ee.ubc.ca (0/0 = undefined) id DAA10136; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 03:27:53 -0800 Received: by rwd6.ee.ubc.ca (5.61/SMI-4.0) id AA20566; Fri, 31 Mar 95 03:31:38 -0800 From: davidk@ee.ubc.ca Message-Id: <9503311131.AA20566@rwd6.ee.ubc.ca> Subject: Arhive Viper 150/PAS-16 difficulties To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 03:31:35 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 966 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I recently picked up a used Archive Viper 150 tape drive to replace an old Wangtek 5099ES. I am using the SCSI controller on the PAS-16D. I am getting an error message whenever I use tar to backup some files with the Archive drive: eg: if I type "tar -cvf /dev/rst0 file1 file2 ... " The kernel responds with: "/kernel: nca0/5/0 data length underflow" (When I restore the files they are corrupted.) Does anybody know what this error message means? This never occurs when I use the Wangtek 5099ES, only with the Archive drive. Do I need to configure the device somehow to use a different recording density? (ie does it matter that the Arhive is QIC-150 while the Wangtek was QIC-24?) Could the drive be faulty? Any help would be appreciated. -- David Kwan Email: davidk@ee.ubc.ca Graduate Studies (M.A.Sc Program) Electrical Engineering The University of British Columbia Vancouver B.C. Canada