From: gei@phdrw2 (Juergen Geinitz) Subject: Re: [Q] problem with scsi-DAT Tape Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:24:17 GMT
In article <1993Jan19.121807.14628@infodev.cam.ac.uk> news@infodev.cam.ac.uk (USENET news) writes:
>In article <C129oM.8oq@iai.kfk.de> gei@phdrw2 (Juergen Geinitz) writes:
>>hello all,
>>a friend of mine lend me an SCS-DAT Tape (It's an HP35480A) and I plugged
>>it into my scsi controller (ada 1542A). At bootup the tape is
>>correctly identified as HP ... at id 6 lun 0. The mt commands work fine,
>>so I've written some MBytes onto the tape fine. -- but I can't read them
>>any more. I've written using 'tar cf /dev/rmt0 /usr' and tar tf /dev/rmt0
>>gives me some scrrens full of tape contents the suddenly locks up. The
>>next onscreen is SCSI0: timed out -- aborting command
... stuff del ..
>As a quick hack I inserted
> timeout *= 10;
>or some such at the top of scsi_do_cmd (I can't remember the wording
>or routine name exactly - this was months ago). This allowed me to read
nice idea, I tried - without success (sigh). The HP drive really seems
to lock up the SCI bus. we tried an Archive Phython which worked fine --
it seems to be that the hp drive act funny.
anyway thanks for help
juergen
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