[3744] in linux-scsi channel archive
exabyte and the aic7xxx...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Walt Bigelow)
Wed Apr 22 16:17:13 1998
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:08:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Walt Bigelow <walt@stimpy.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
ALL:
I have been having the some problem over and over lately when trying to
use my exabyte "exb-8505" tape drive. THe problem is when I access the
tape via st0, and tar, the machine "locks" up and then proceeds to "abort
command due to timeout" over and over. Then eventually the scsi bus
resets, and the machine stops responding. I have had this problem with 2
different drives over 3 machines all witht the aic7xxx driver and
different versions of the linux kernel. THe exabyte works fine on my SGI
workstation.
My setup:
Pentium 133
the aic7xxx driver respnds with:
Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 4.1.1/3.2.1
Compile Options:
AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY : 15
AIC7XXX_TAGGED_QUEUEING: Disabled
AIC7XXX_PAGE_ENABLE : Disabled
AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS : Enabled
Adapter Configuration:
SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter
(AIC-787x chipset)
Host Bus: Wide
Base IO: 0x6100
Base IO Memory: 0xf0000000
IRQ: 11
SCBs: Used 6, HW 16, Page 16
Interrupts: 111082
Serial EEPROM: True
Extended Translation: Enabled
SCSI Bus Reset: Enabled
Ultra SCSI: Disabled
Disconnect Enable Flags: 0xffbf
and my exabyte drive responds with:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-85058SQANXR1 Rev: 0781
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
I have a vanilla linux-2.0.33 kernel with st compiled in as a module.
The scsi buss is terminated properly, seeing I have 6 devices on the same
buss (and I get the same error if I only have the exabyte!) and ALL the
other devices work perfectly!
I also have this SAME problem with redhat5.0 as I do with Slackware96!
This is what I do to start a backup:
>modprobe st
>tar -cpvf /dev/st0 /usr/people /usr/projects
That is where it goes to hell. Am I doing something stupid? Or missing
something?
Any help is appricated!
Thanks,
Walt
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