Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:26:21 -0400 From: David Krinsky <krinsky@bantha.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Seagate STT8000A (ATAPI/IDE) on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990831222621.A392@bantha.org>
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Has anyone here successfully used a Seagate STT8000A (8 gig Travan) ATAPI/IDE tape drive with FreeBSD? With wst0 compiled into the kernel, the drive is recognized correctly, and even works properly with small amounts of data; I have been able to back up and restore (using tar) a small test directory. When I try to tar up a usefully-sized directory or filesystem, however, the drive will begin its work apparently correctly, but the tar will exit with an I/O error at a variable point a few seconds to minutes into the backup. The following goes to syslog: wst_done: wst0: nonrecovered data error total=337920 ERR=70 len=20 ASC=31 ASCQ=0 After this point, and until the next reboot, all attempts to access the drive cause the machine to hang for a few seconds, and then return to normal, but with the new tar process asleep, apparently uninterruptibly, on wstdsc. After the brief hang the following appears in the syslog: atapi1.1: controller not ready for cmd atapi1.1: controller not ready for cmd atapi1.1: controller not ready for cmd atapi1.1: controller not ready for cmd atapi1.1: controller not ready for cmd wst0: Sense media type failed Has anyone seen this problem? I am running 3.2-STABLE on a vanilla PIII-450. The filesystems being backed up are, in toto, quite large, but the disk space used is less than 3GB (and should thus fit on one tape with or without compression). Any help would be appreciated; I'm willing to go to -CURRENT if it'll fix the problem, but as this is my primary work machine I'd rather not do so unless I'm confident it will improve the situation. Many thanks! Dave. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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