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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6482 ; Sun, 10 Jan 93 02:08:39 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!world!msw From: msw@world.std.com (Mark S Warren) Subject: Re: [386BSD] scsi tape problem Message-ID: <C0qy1J.4Fy@world.std.com> Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die References: <100939.24758.12895@kcbbs.gen.nz> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:08:06 GMT Lines: 23 dgd@kcbbs.gen.nz (David Dix) writes: >My scsi tape drive used to work ok with the original 386bsd scsi driver. >However after installing Julian's new scsi driver the tape is found ok: [...config info deleted...] >The disk and CD-Rom work ok but when I try to write anything to a tape with >'tar cvf /dev/rst0 .' these errors are reported: > st0: medium error block no. 40 (decimal) [...and so on...] I had exactly the same symptoms. I have a 1542B with an LXT-200 disk, Wangtek 5150ES tape, and LMS-214 CDROM. Unfortunately, the problem is *NOT* reproduceable. Right now, the driver is workiung fine, and I've changed nothing since the write errors were reported. Anyone have any clues on this? -- == Mark S. Warren msw@world.std.com (508) 772-6045 ==