Re: SCSI tape drive hanging

2006-02-21 Thread Nick Holland
Marcus Barczak wrote: ... -- dmesg output -- ahc0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 Adaptec AHA-2940U rev 0x00: irq 11 scsibus2 at ahc0: 16 targets st0 at scsibus2 targ 4 lun 0: HP, C1537A, L706 SCSI2 1/sequential removable st0: density code 0x8c, variable blocks, write-enabled Has anyone seen this

Re: SCSI tape drive hanging

2006-02-21 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Monday 20 February 2006 18:47, Marcus Barczak wrote: Just recently acquired a cast off Sun DDS3 SCSI tape drive. It's an external unit and connected to my internal Adaptec 2940UW controller. The problem i'm experiencing is anytime I try issuing a command with mt for instance: I have an

Re: SCSI tape drive hanging

2006-02-21 Thread Aaron Hsu
Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcus Barczak wrote: ... -- dmesg output -- ahc0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 Adaptec AHA-2940U rev 0x00: irq 11 scsibus2 at ahc0: 16 targets st0 at scsibus2 targ 4 lun 0: HP, C1537A, L706 SCSI2 1/sequential removable st0: density code 0x8c, variable

Re: SCSI tape drive hanging

2006-02-21 Thread Marcus Barczak
On 21/02/2006, at 11:44 PM, Nick Holland wrote: Alternate response: If you know what parts of a dmesg we need to fix your problem, you obviously can fix your own problem. Fair call ... attached is a complete dmesg :) Further to that i've experimented with the SCSI card BIOS by dropping

Re: SCSI tape drive hanging

2006-02-21 Thread knitti
On 2/21/06, Marcus Barczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- dmesg --- OpenBSD 3.8 (NERF) #0: Fri Jan 20 13:35:16 EST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/NERF uh oh. http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Why --knitti

Re: SCSI tape drive hanging

2006-02-21 Thread Marcus Barczak
On 22/02/2006, at 11:39 AM, knitti wrote: uh oh. http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Why Ok .. i'm learning a few lessons here. I've tested with the stock GENERIC kernel and am experiencing the same problem. Another very generous list member emailed me off list asking me to build a kernel

SCSI tape drive hanging

2006-02-20 Thread Marcus Barczak
Hi Guys, Just recently acquired a cast off Sun DDS3 SCSI tape drive. It's an external unit and connected to my internal Adaptec 2940UW controller. The problem i'm experiencing is anytime I try issuing a command with mt for instance: % mt -f /dev/rst0 status The mt process will just hang,

SCSI tape drive hanging

2006-02-20 Thread Marcus Barczak
Hi Guys, Just recently acquired a cast off Sun DDS3 SCSI tape drive. It's an external unit and connected to my internal Adaptec 2940UW controller. The problem i'm experiencing is anytime I try issuing a command with mt for instance: % mt -f /dev/rst0 status The mt process will just

Re: SCSI tape drive hanging

2006-02-20 Thread Aaron Hsu
Marcus Barczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just recently acquired a cast off Sun DDS3 SCSI tape drive. It's an external unit and connected to my internal Adaptec 2940UW controller. The problem i'm experiencing is anytime I try issuing a command with mt for instance: % mt -f /dev/rst0