Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:25:52 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "krell@krellonline.com" <krell@pcnet.com>, "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SCSI TAPE Drives Message-ID: <19981224122552.F12346@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <01BE2E75.55F73BF0.rlinane@krellonline.com>; from Richard J. Linane on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 01:08:29PM -0500 References: <01BE2E75.55F73BF0.rlinane@krellonline.com>
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On Wednesday, 23 December 1998 at 13:08:29 -0500, Richard J. Linane wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.7. > > I have an Adaptec 1520 SCSI CONTROLLER and a TANDBURG TDC 3800 SCSI Tape Drive. > > Both the controller card and the tape drive are sensed and recognized. > And the tape is showing that it is write enabled. > > When I try to list the contents of the tape using the command > > tar t > the system appears to hang. > > A few minutes later I start receiving an error message > > /kernel: st0(aic0:2:0): timed out > > This will continue until I reboot the system. > > I am unable to kill the process > > tar t > > The drive and the card are known to be in good working order. > > I had removed them this morning from a system running SCO UNIX. I have one of these drives too, and I've never had any trouble with it. The symptoms look like SCSI chain problems. What else do you have connected? How is it terminated? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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