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From: markjr@shmooze.net (markjr@shmooze.net)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.hp.hardware
Subject: HP C1533A DDS-2 SCSI Tape Drive Hangs
Date: 4 Jun 1996 15:20:15 GMT
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Anyone know about these Tape Drives or SCSI drives (external) in
general? The system sees the drive fine, but after an arbirtrary
amout of reading or writing, the whole box hangs.
i've tried:
tar cf /dev/rst0 /whatever/*
alternating with different device files like: /dev/rst0_dds /dev/nrst0_dds,
/dev/rst0_ddsII /dev/nrst0_ddsII to no avail, and any of the fixed record
block devices, i.e. /dev/rst0_fixed or /dev/rst0_fdds, cause a kernel panic.
It's a DAT drive and came with some 2 and 4 gig (uncompressed) tapes.
I had a similar prob. under linux, but the mt cmd on slackware has
a format cmd that takes care of it (IDE drives tho).
Not overly familiar with SCSI buses, would changing the SCSI ID
(currently 4) impact this kind of thing? (I can't see any conflicts),
what about the bios settings (most of them sutiably tweaked to deal
with the internal SCSI bus). The drive is external, so I disabled
the bios termination. I believe the external terminator is a "passive"
one. Would the external drive have a different SCSI controller ID than
the internal? At the moment they're all on 0. Hmmm.
Any info appreciated.
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