Travan SCSI tape random failures

2003-11-01 Thread Trevor Blackwell
I'm running 4.7-RELEASE on a dual P4-Xeon machine and trying to back up to a Seagate 10/20 GB Travan tape drive: sa0 at ahd1 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 sa0: Seagate STT2N 6A51 Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) It's in the default mode:

Re: Travan SCSI tape random failures

2003-11-01 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003, Trevor Blackwell wrote: I'm running 4.7-RELEASE on a dual P4-Xeon machine and trying to back up to a Seagate 10/20 GB Travan tape drive: ... When I write to it, it usually fails after a few hundred MB, but the amount of data is not repeatable even when I write identical