[1760] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: SCSI Tape Error Messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel M. Eischen)
Fri Apr 25 19:11:56 1997
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:27:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, matt@manc.edu
> I wrote the list about this message a couple weeks ago, and it is still
> persistant in coming back, even after a kernel recompilation and machine
> reboot.... This is my HP SureStore 6000 on the external channel of an
> Adaptec 3940UW. it appears to get about 30 minutes into a backup, and then
> dies. The backup is just a "tar -cvb 256 -f /dev/nst0 /xxxx" where xxxx is
> a directory off the root directory. It has worked for about 2 months now,
> since we got the drive, but all of a sudden its not =/.. Could this be a
> cable error? Termination? Anything else?
Cabling and termination can cause these problems. Also, improper
use of the connectors on the 7880 (using all three - int 50, int 68,
ext 68), will also cause problems.
A buggy driver will cause problems too. There's a new test release
of the driver at:
ftp://ftp.pcnet.com/users/eischen/Linux/aic7xxx-2.1.26-Apr20.tgz
ftp://ftp.dialnetnet/pub/linux/aic7xxx/pcnet.com/aic7xxx-2.1.26-Apr20.tgz
Note that the 284x support is broke. We're trying to fix that, so
the driver will not be ready for prime time until it's fixed.
But for PCI and EISA adapters it _should_ work much better.
Reminder: There's a separate mailing list for aic7xxx development.
Please post follow-ups there.
Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org
