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From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Problems
Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands
Message-ID: <DyKA07.ot@yedi.iaf.nl>
References: <324DE22B.41C67EA6@ottawa.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 19:55:19 GMT
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Rosty Cisyk <rosty@ottawa.com> writes:
>Hi,
>I'm having problems using EXABYTE EXB-8200 tape drive under FreeBSD
>2.1-RELEASE. When I try to use dump (I've tried tar as well), I get the
>following messages:
[del]
>After this the red ("writing") light comes one and stays steady. The
>entire machine locks up indefinitely and I have to manualy reset it.
>I know it's not a hardware problem because the same drive with the same
>tape works fine with Cheyenne's ARCsolo for Windows. I don't get any
>error messages neither on console nor in /var/log/messages.
>What am I doing wrong? Couldn't find anything in the news archive, so
>hopefully someone could help me to figure this out.
It is worth investigating what happens when you use another version
of the firmware _inside_ the Exabyte. I've been using an
"EXABYTE EXB-8200 2687" from FreeBSD 2.0.5 (maybe even earlier) without
any problems. Exabyte has produced a fair number of different firmware
versions for the 8200 over time.
Check out http://www.exabyte.com