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From: ab578@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Bill Cheung)
Subject: FreeBSD Driver Bug? (was Re: UMC chipset works with AHP 1452CF?)
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Reply-To: ab578@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Bill Cheung)
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 13:57:19 GMT
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In a previous article, nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) says:
>In article <CtEwH5.HIF@freenet.carleton.ca>,
>Bill Cheung <ab578@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
>>Is there anyone who is running FreeBSD on a UMC chipset 486 motherboard?
>
>I have been running 386BSD and then FreeBSD for years on my UMC Mboard.
>
>>Someone told me UMC chipset motherboards have problem with AHP 1452CF.
>
>I've heard that certain versions of the UMC chipset have problems, but
>not all of them do. I've got a 1542B and have had ZERO problems due
>to the Mboard. (A couple real silly problems I caused, but nothing
>due to hardware)
>
Well, I bought the UMC chipset motherboard a couple of days ago. The
dealer promised me he will give me back my money if I have any problem with
it within two weeks. I don't have much time left now.
The problem is my ARCHIVE VIPER QIC 150 is not working, and I'm not sure if
that is a software bug or a hardware problem.
Here is a example of what I did:
beebie# tar tv
st0(aha0:5:0): no data found, requested size: 20 (decimal)
... no data found, requested size: 20 (decimal)
... no data found, requested size: 20 (decimal)
beebie# tar tv
st0(aha0:5:0): non-media hardware failure {I'm sure the tape is in the drive}
st0: oops not queued
tar: read error on /dev/rst0: Input/Ouput error
..../386bsd : read error on /dev/rst0: Input/Ouput error
..../386bsd : read error on /dev/rst0: Input/Ouput error
I've tried removed the tape and put it back to the drive, and/or rebooting
the system. 97% of the time the drive just goes back and forth a bit and
then gives up. 2% of the time it goes fine up to a certain point and then
keeps on saying something non-stop like (this happened once at the very end
of the last file in on the tape):
(aha0:5:0): blah,.... blah info: 20 ....
(aha0:5:0): blah,.... blah info: 20 ....
(aha0:5:0): blah,.... blah info: 20 ....
(aha0:5:0): blah,.... blah info: 20 ....
(aha0:5:0): blah,.... blah info: 20 ....
(aha0:5:0): blah,.... blah info: 20 ....
(aha0:5:0): blah,.... blah info: 20 ....
.....
.....
I guest that is something to do with the block size 20x512??
The remaining 1% of the time the tape drive works just fine.
Any idea what is causing the problem, anyone?
I'm running FreeBSD 1.1 on a Intel 486 DX2/66, with an AHA 1452CF, an
Archive Viper QIC 150 and a ST3550N hard-drive.
Any suggestion will also be appreciated.
I haven't been reading this group regularly for a couple of months, if this
is a known problem, I'm sorry about that (I did check FreeBSD FAQs).
-Bill