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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!scd.hp.com!hpscdm!cupnews0.cup.hp.com!news1.boi.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpcvmcdj!carlj From: carlj@hpcvmcdj.cv.hp.com (Carl Johnson) Subject: [386BSD] SCSI tape drive problem Message-ID: <1992Oct30.161309.20856@hpcvmcdj.cv.hp.com> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 16:13:09 GMT Lines: 73 I have been trying to get my Archive 2525 tape drive to use DC600 tapes, but it errors out every time when using Julius's scsi driver. I can use DC6525 tapes, but I have lots of surplus DC600 that will work in QIC-120 format using other systems and the original scsi driver for 386bsd. It looks like the tape drive is telling the system that it can accept variable size blocks which is not true in QIC-120 mode, so it gives an illegal request error when the system tries to write using non-standard block sizes. I don't know if the tape drive is reporting the wrong size, or if the scsi driver is somehow reading the tape drive inproperly. Does anybody know what is the real problem in this case? Below is a log of the startup when st_debug is enabled in the st driver. Thanks for any information. *** Booting with a DC600 tape in drive Oct 29 20:17:42 cjbsd /386bsd: pc0<color> at 0x60 irq 1 on isa Oct 29 20:17:42 cjbsd /386bsd: com1 at 0x3f8 irq 4 on isa Oct 29 20:17:42 cjbsd /386bsd: com2 at 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa Oct 29 20:17:42 cjbsd /386bsd: wd0 0:<TOSHIBA MK234FC> at 0x1f0 irq 14 on isa Oct 29 20:17:42 cjbsd /386bsd: fd0 drives 0: 1.44M, 1: 1.2M at 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2 on isa Oct 29 20:17:42 cjbsd /386bsd: aha0 reading board settings, 250 nSEC ok, use 300 nSEC Oct 29 20:17:42 cjbsd /386bsd: **aha0 probing for scsi devices** Oct 29 20:17:42 cjbsd /386bsd: dev0,lu0: type 0(direct),fixed 'FUJITSU M2624F-512 0404' scsi1 Oct 29 20:17:42 cjbsd /386bsd: sd0: 491MB, cyls 1429, heads 11, secs 64, bytes/sec 512 Oct 29 20:17:43 cjbsd /386bsd: dev4,lu0: type 1(sequential),removable 'ARCHIVE VIPER 2525 25462-005' scsi1 Oct 29 20:17:43 cjbsd /386bsd: unit 0: 0 blocks, (512 bytes each) st0: scsi tape drive, 0 blocks of 512 bytes Oct 29 20:17:43 cjbsd /386bsd: aha0 at 0x330 irq 11 drq 5 on isa Oct 29 20:17:43 cjbsd /386bsd: we0 ethernet address 00:00:c0:ff:88:15 at 0x280 irq 9 on isa Oct 29 20:17:43 cjbsd /386bsd: npx0 at 0xf0 irq 13 on isa *** Starting tar to rst0 Oct 29 20:19:30 cjbsd /386bsd: (1 <= blksiz <= 65536 Oct 29 20:19:30 cjbsd /386bsd: ) Oct 29 20:19:30 cjbsd /386bsd: unit 0: 0 blocks, (512 bytes each) Oct 29 20:19:35 cjbsd /386bsd: code0 class7 valid1 Oct 29 20:19:35 cjbsd /386bsd: seg0 key5 ili0 eom0 fmark0 Oct 29 20:19:35 cjbsd /386bsd: info: 0 0 28 0 followed by 6 extra bytes Oct 29 20:19:35 cjbsd /386bsd: extra: 0 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1e 9b c 0 4 Oct 29 20:19:35 cjbsd /386bsd: st0: illegal request Oct 29 20:19:35 cjbsd /386bsd: Oct 29 20:19:40 cjbsd /386bsd: code0 class7 valid1 Oct 29 20:19:40 cjbsd /386bsd: seg0 key5 ili0 eom0 fmark0 Oct 29 20:19:40 cjbsd /386bsd: info: 0 0 0 1 followed by 6 extra bytes Oct 29 20:19:40 cjbsd /386bsd: extra: 0 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1e 9b c 0 4 Oct 29 20:19:40 cjbsd /386bsd: st0: illegal request Oct 29 20:19:41 cjbsd /386bsd: could not write_filemarks st0 Oct 29 20:39:40 cjbsd /386bsd: aha0: device 4 timed out Oct 29 20:52:44 cjbsd shutdown: reboot by root: Oct 29 20:52:47 cjbsd syslogd: exiting on signal 15 *** Booting with DC6525 tape in drive Oct 29 20:54:28 cjbsd /386bsd: pc0<color> at 0x60 irq 1 on isa Oct 29 20:54:28 cjbsd /386bsd: com1 at 0x3f8 irq 4 on isa Oct 29 20:54:28 cjbsd /386bsd: com2 at 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa Oct 29 20:54:28 cjbsd /386bsd: wd0 0:<TOSHIBA MK234FC> at 0x1f0 irq 14 on isa Oct 29 20:54:28 cjbsd /386bsd: fd0 drives 0: 1.44M, 1: 1.2M at 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2 on isa Oct 29 20:54:28 cjbsd /386bsd: aha0 reading board settings, kernel: type 19 trap, code=0 Oct 29 20:54:28 cjbsd /386bsd: 250 nSEC ok, use 300 nSEC Oct 29 20:54:28 cjbsd /386bsd: **aha0 probing for scsi devices** Oct 29 20:54:28 cjbsd /386bsd: dev0,lu0: type 0(direct),fixed 'FUJITSU M2624F-512 0404' scsi1 Oct 29 20:54:29 cjbsd /386bsd: sd0: 491MB, cyls 1429, heads 11, secs 64, bytes/sec 512 Oct 29 20:54:29 cjbsd /386bsd: dev4,lu0: type 1(sequential),removable 'ARCHIVE VIPER 2525 25462-005' scsi1 Oct 29 20:54:29 cjbsd /386bsd: unit 0: 0 blocks, (512 bytes each) st0: scsi tape drive, 0 blocks of 512 bytes Oct 29 20:54:29 cjbsd /386bsd: aha0 at 0x330 irq 11 drq 5 on isa Oct 29 20:54:29 cjbsd /386bsd: we0 ethernet address 00:00:c0:ff:88:15 at 0x280 irq 9 on isa Oct 29 20:54:29 cjbsd /386bsd: npx0 at 0xf0 irq 13 on isa *** Starting tar to rst0 Oct 29 20:57:45 cjbsd /386bsd: (1 <= blksiz <= 65536 Oct 29 20:57:45 cjbsd /386bsd: ) Oct 29 20:57:45 cjbsd /386bsd: unit 0: 0 blocks, (512 bytes each) -- Carl Johnson carlj@cv.hp.com