Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:11:33 -0500 From: "Rodney C. Forbes" <urcf@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Exabyte 8200 tape drive problems. Message-ID: <199512111911.OAA07384@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
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I recently hooked an Exabyte 8200 tape drive to a FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE system. I had hoped to backup the drives and install FreeBSD 2.1. I can read from the tape drive, but I can't write. Everytime I try to write, it either locks up the system, or reports the following message: st1: bad request, must be between 0 and 0 I have tried using both dump and tar to do the writes. I tried rdump to a linux machine that normally has the tape drive attached, but even after hunting for dump utilities for linux (Linux doesn't come with dump, rdump, mt, or rmt), I kept getting errors from the linux machine. And people wonder why I hate linux. So I moved the tape drive to the FreeBSD machine. Both machines have the same SCSI-2 card, Adaptec AHA-1520A, and neither machine has any other SCSI devices. Any suggestions that might help me get this system dumped, would be appreciated. If you need more information, please ask. -- _ /| \'o.O' urcf@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Rodney C. Forbes) =(___)= http://fang.cs.sunyit.edu/~urcf/index.html U There was a young lady from Hyde Who ate a green apple and died. While her lover lamented The apple fermented And made cider inside her inside.
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