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Re: [Linux-scsi] Re: Sony SDT-9000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Thomas)
Mon Feb 7 17:48:43 2000
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 09:41:59 +1100
From: Jason Thomas <jason@topic.com.au>
To: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Message-ID: <20000208094159.C1980@topic.com.au>
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kernels: 2.2.14 and 2.2.6
scsi cards: adaptec AHA-1505 isa card and an adaptec AHA-2940 ultra2
jumpers: scsi-id2:off, scsi-id1:off, scsi-id0:off,
d.c.disable:off, scsi-parity:on, terminator:on,
term-power:on
used as only device on the scsi bus.
as far as I can tell it is not the controller or drivers or cable, they all
work fine with the seagate drive I have here. but when I try to write to
this device it writes ~200MB to the drive than locks up the machine.
Marc SCHAEFER [schaefer@alphanet.ch] wrote:
> Jason Thomas <jason@topic.com.au> wrote:
> > The Scsi controllers are different in both machines, various kernel versions
> > have been tried.
>
> Can you give the detail ? Such as exact kernel release, SCSI hardware, etc ?
> Can you also give me the jumper detail of the SDT-9000, and the SCSI bus
> configuration and topology details ?
>
> > When we first bought the tape drive it worked fine for about three months
> > before this happened.
>
> I have one SDT-9000 with 125m tapes on a 2.2.13 SYM53C875 Linux PC, one on a
> 2.0.27 + patches with AHA1542, and one on a 2.0.38 SYM53c810 Linux PC,
> without any problem, running for more than one year daily backup on 2.0.27.
>
> Note that it is possible for the SDT-9000 to cause timeouts in some rare
> cases (head clogging because you didn't clean regularly, when loading
> a tape). Using a killall syslogd klogd before starting the test can
> help in seeing that kind of things.
>
>
>
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