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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!duncan From: duncan@netcom.com (Donald K. Duncan) Subject: Re: help: experiences with Archive 2525 streamer drive Message-ID: <duncanC4vGr7.9C5@netcom.com> Summary: busted Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <519@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 19:57:06 GMT Lines: 33 In article <519@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl>, wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes: > I try to use an Archive 2525 525Mb scsi streamer drive with 386bsd. > It is connected to an Adaptec 1542A (not B). > When I use the 'stock' as driver (patchkit 0.2.2) it kind of works, > apart from various error messages (controller error 12). > > Using Julian's drivers, the st driver complains that 'write > filemark failed' when trying to cpio to the tape. Reading a tape > written on another machine (which can be read by the stock as driver > BTW) only yields '0x00's from the tape. > I too have been experiencing various tapedrive difficulties. I'm using julian's drivers and pl0.2.[12]. To summarize: when using an Exabyte 5150ES/Adaptec 1542B with a tape in the drive the system hangs after probing all scsi devices in the system. It works fine if I boot and then insert the tape. When using a 5150ES/1742A in normal mode the system behaves as above. An attempt to write to a qic150 tape using a 5150ES/1742A in extended mode the system reports "write filemark failed" as Wilko reported. It reads qic120 and qic150 tapes fine. An archive 2120 has worked in all combinations and boots with a tape in the drive. Anyone have any ideas? -- duncan@zycad.com (Donald Duncan)