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From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 problem
Message-ID: <CsI3z3.H9I@tfs.com>
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
References: <mantarCsFx43.8J9@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 04:18:39 GMT
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In article <mantarCsFx43.8J9@netcom.com>,
Manfred Antar <mantar@netcom.com> wrote:
>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
^^^ (I assume you mean st0?)
(atually probably not.. it sounds as if the exb8200 is
locking up the scsi bus..)
>
>today i recompiled the kernal with scsi debugging and when i do a :
>
>scsi -f /dev/rst1 -i i get:
no you must use this call on the control device (see st(4) and st(1)
and scsi(1) and scsi(4))
>
>ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device
(quite correctly)
>
>| Ph. (415) 255-9411 |
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