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From: csshah@sugarcane.vislab.olemiss.edu (Viren R. Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 problem
Date: 5 Jul 94 13:04:47 GMT
Organization: Mississippi Center for SuperComputing Research
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Message-ID: <csshah.773413487@sugarcane>
References: <mantarCsFx43.8J9@netcom.com>
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In <mantarCsFx43.8J9@netcom.com> mantar@netcom.com (Manfred Antar) writes:
>I'm having trouble getting a Exabyte 8200 to work under FreeBSD 1.1.5
>it is connected to a adaptec 1740 card along with the hard drive and
>a cdrom.the hard drive has FreeBSD on it.is it nessarry to use a different
>controller card from the hard drive controller? the tape drive works
>fine under OS/2.i get an error when i try to dump to the tape drive
>i get this:
>st0: bad request,must be between 512 and 1024 and somtimes this:
>(sd0) timed out AGAIN on and on scrolling down the screen
What parameters are you using to dump? Also, I assume your SCSI bus is
properly terminated?
>today i recompiled the kernal with scsi debugging and when i do a :
>scsi -f /dev/rst1 -i i get:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You mean rst0, right?
>ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>| mantar@netcom.com |
Viren
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