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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!tfs.com!mailhub!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: Dat tape drive problems Message-ID: <D8HI9E.8Ir@tfs.com> Sender: usenet@tfs.com (Mr. News) Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA References: <3or9ga$1ul@noc1.portland.net> Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 21:27:13 GMT Lines: 46 In article <3or9ga$1ul@noc1.portland.net>, news.biddeford.com <jernst@biddeford.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I work for a ISP and we are haveing trouble >with BSD/386 1.1 er, are you SURE it's BSD/386? not FreeBSD 1.1? (this is the FreeBSD newsgroup, not the Bsdi newsgroup) but your error messages do look a LOT like the FreeBSD messages.. > >It is the DAT tape drive we use is giveing SCSI Errors. > >sd0:scsi sense: Recoverd error: asc 0x18, ascq 0x1 this should not be an error, hopefully it's just a message.. > >and > >aha0: command timed out (the backup died) this IS a problem, and indicates a failure somewhere in the SCSI infrastructure.. it MIGHT be in the SW or it MIGHT be in the HW. > >They seem to be completely at random on some occasions >the backup works perfectly. > >We are useing an intel box with a barracuda SCSI 1.5gig drive, a >BusLogic scsi adapter. and have an active terminator terminating. hmm it looks like you are running BSDI.. the buslogic has a separate driver under FreeBSD, that runs faster > >any sujestion would be great. use FreeBSD? :) >Thanks > > @----------------------------------------@ > |James B. Ernst Jernst@biddeford.com | > | http://www.biddeford.com| > |(207) 756-8770 Biddeford Internet Corp | > @----------------------------------------@