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ncr53c815
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andre Moitinho)
Wed Mar 5 06:53:54 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 12:19:03 +0100
From: Andre Moitinho <andre@iaa.es>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Hi everyone.
I use a pentium-100 with a ncr53c815 scsi controler and a
HP SureStrore 5000, at my work.
Last week the system was upgraded to slackware 3.1
(linux 2.0.0) and some problems (that I didn't have
with linux 1.2.8) started:
When I try to forward a large number of files on tape,
i.e: mt -f /dev/nrmt0 fsf 100
the tape unit hangs up.
This doesn't happen when the number of files is small (ie. 30)
Also if I forward, lets say 30 files, then backward some files,
and then forward again, the unit gets lost...
We (me and the sysadm) first though it might be because of
the synchronous option when compiling the kernel, so
we tried it with and without asynchronous mode enabled and
still it doesn't work right.
Does anyone out there has a clue on what's going on?
Thank you very much,
Andre'
