Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 13:50:00 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: rreiner@fscinternet.com Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk>, grog@lemis.com Subject: Re: DDS3 problems with DDS-2 & DDS-1 tapes Message-ID: <199810032050.NAA29990@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 03 Oct 98 15:55:41 -0400. <199810031916.PAA18545@forest.fscinternet.com>
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>I noticed a thread on the freebsd-hardware list from a little while >back re. getting a DDS-3 drive to work with DDS-2 and DDS-1 >tapes... I have the same problem, our new HP DDS-3 drive works >flawlessly with new DDS-3 tapes, *appears* to write to old tapes >from my DDS-1 drive (i.e. the write completes without complaining), >but cannot read them back (fails with messages like this: "st0: >MEDIUM ERROR asc:9,0 Track following error field replaceable >unit: 2"). > >Did anyone ever find a solution to this? I emailed Seagate tech support and they sent me a flash BIOS update. I flashed the new BIOS and it has worked fine ever since. Go to http://www.seagate.com/ and fill out a service request form. (Assuming your HP drive is actually an Archive/Seagate unit.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon mvanloon@exmsft.com michaelv@MindBender.serv.net Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix. Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C. --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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