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- From: gei@phdrw2 (Juergen Geinitz)
- Subject: Re: [Q] problem with scsi-DAT Tape
- Message-ID: <C17K0I.41@iai.kfk.de>
- Keywords: SCSI Tape DAT
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- Organization: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Germany
- References: <C129oM.8oq@iai.kfk.de> <1993Jan19.121807.14628@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:24:17 GMT
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- 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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