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Re: BT-958 slow tape reliability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Thu Apr 16 03:17:04 1998
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:31:07 -0700
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: ebeck@tahoma.com
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <35355DD3.54D2CCFD@tahoma.com> (ebeck@tahoma.com)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 21:24:36 -0400
From: "Erik H. Beck" <ebeck@tahoma.com>
Until I moved the drive away from the computer and monitor, it wasn't able to
obey even a retension command correctly on either NT or LINUX. Once I moved
the tape drive away from the computer, it was able to sometimes correctly
interpret a retension command, but no read or write operations were
successful. The tape drive just hangs. The firmware version is 5.07b.
Kernel is a stock 2.0.33. The Seagate Tape Store 8000 is attached to the
external 68 pin port of the BT-958 with a 68 to 50 pin cable . A 50 pin
active terminator is attached directly to the Tape Store. There are no other
SCSI devices in use. This cabling arrangement may be part of the
problem. See email from Jeff Noxon below.
Cabling or termination problems could certainly explain this sort of flakey
behavior. You might also want to try firmware 5.06J available from my web
site.
Leonard
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