Tape drive problem...

[Peter Elsner]

Update...

I tried a Traven 10/20 GIG (which I have several of working on 
4.7-RELEASEp6 and 4.7-STABLE)...

Got the same error message...

So it would appear that the ata driver is broken in 4.7-RELEASEp10...

I will now update to 4.8-STABLE to see if that will fix the problem, will 
let everyone know the results...

Peter



At 08:07 AM 4/22/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Have a new box running 4.7-RELEASE-p10.
>It's a Dell with a 20/40 GIG Traven IDE tape drive in it.
>
>When trying to backup to the tape and/or restore from the tape, I get the 
>following error message:
>
>modice# tar cvf /dev/ast0 *
>ast0: REZERO command timeout - resetting
>ata2: resetting devices .. done
>
>If there are only 10 or so files in the directory, they do backup and can 
>be restored, but you still get the
>error messages...
>
>If there are more than 10, you get the above error messages, and only the 
>first 10 (sometimes only 8) files
>get backed up.
>
>Anyone seen this before?
>
>Peter
>
>
>
>
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Peter Elsner <peter at servplex.com>
Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator)
1835 S. Carrier Parkway
Grand Prairie, Texas 75051
(972) 263-2080 - Voice
(972) 263-2082 - Fax
(972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone
(425) 988-8061 - eFax

I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's
too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry
that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say "Daddy, where
were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?"
-- Mike Godwin

Unix IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.
System Administration - It's a dirty job, but somebody said I had to do it.
If you receive something that says 'Send this to everyone you know,
pretend you don't know me.

Standard $500/message proofreading fee applies for UCE.