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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!olivea!pagesat!news.cerf.net!crash!fredbox!terminator!loodvrij From: loodvrij@cyb.cojones.com (Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542C and Archive 2525S with NetBSD-0.8 Keywords: adaptec 1542C archive viper 2525 Message-ID: <CB21Dx.23w@cyb.cojones.com> Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1993 00:29:42 GMT References: <1993Jul30.214626.29331@iplmail.orl.mmc.com> Reply-To: loodvrij%cyb@fredbox.cts.com Organization: The museum of ancient wombats Lines: 43 In article <1993Jul30.214626.29331@iplmail.orl.mmc.com> patw@orl.mmc.com (Pat Walker) writes: >Howdy All, > As you might surmise from the Subject line, I'm having some >difficulty with my Archive tape drive and NetBSD. I have >a Maxtor 1240S and an Archive 2525S hooked up to my Adaptec 1542C. Wow. I have amlost EXACTLY the same setup (except my Maxtor is bigger!) and more or less the same problems. >The Maxtor works great, NetBSD installed off of the floppies >great, but I'm having trouble using the Archive. Whenever >I try to tar anything off the tape I get > >st0: illegal request >st0: mode sense failed >st0: illegal request >tar: read error on /dev/rst0: invalid argument. > It works Ok for me when the tar file was written by NetBSD, but when I try to read tapes written under DOS with gtar (or is it gtak? Some APSI version of Gnu tar anyhow) I get the errors above. And trying to read QIC-24 tapes which were written on an old Sun 3 totally fails, though Archive claim the drive should be able to read them. Oh yeah, and dump appears to work, but restore does not... >I've swapped in an Archive 2150S and it works ok. Anybody >have any clues? Sounds distinctly odd to me. > >I've Tested the drive on a sun, and it works, so i don't >think it is a defective drive. > No, it definately sounds like a driver problem doesn't it? >Patrick Walker patw@orl.mmc.com >Martin Marietta Electronic Systems (407)356-5909 > >Steinbach's Guideline for System Programming : > "Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle" > Bruce