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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: HP external SCSI tape and FreeBSD-2.1.6
Date: 13 Feb 1997 16:07:01 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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The tape sitts on the Adaptec-1522 of it's very own (disks
are on the 2940). Both tape and the adapter are terminated.
When it is recognized, the message says, there is no tape in it
(whether there is really or not).

My attempts to do either ``mt rewind'' or ``tar cvp /somthing''
lead to the eventual timeouts (kernel message about st0 timing
out), and the tar or mt processes to become unkillable (they are
in kernel, right?).

This is a fancy hardware, and it is pretty embarassing I can not
make it work... Any suggestions?

Tape came with docs, but they primarily talk about HPUX...

Thanks,

	-mi
-- 
	"Windows for dummies"