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Re: Exabyte problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Adebahr)
Thu Jul 31 02:56:56 1997
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 08:44:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Peter Adebahr <adsys@bruck.geophysik.uni-muenchen.de>
Reply-To: Peter Adebahr <storchi@bruck.geophysik.uni-muenchen.de>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707241128.MAA08144@isengard.uk.ml.com>
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Tethys wrote:
>
> I've recently got an exabyte tape drive that I'm trying to get working.
> It's recognised by the system, and I can rewind it, offline it and so
> on with mt. However, when I try to read from or write to the tape, it
> hangs and the process goes into an uninterruptable sleep. If I strace
> the process, it's waiting on an uncompleted read (the very first one
> that tried to access the tape). Presumably it'd be hung on a write
> if I was writing to the tape.
>
[...]
> I'm using an AdvanSys ISA 5140 SCSI adapter, with the following:
>
It is probably not the exabyte itself. We have one running here,
just fine, and old EXB-8200. However, it is connected via an
Asus SC-875 (Symbios 53C875 chip), and it was also running ok on
an Asus SC-200 (NCR 53C810) controller before. It looks like a
driver- or controller problem to me. According to the installed
controller, we are using the ncr53c8xx driver, revision 2.3c .
Hope it helps!
Peter
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