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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!swrinde!news.dell.com!raid.dell.com!james From: james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386BSD 0.1 scsi tape problem Message-ID: <1992Jul28.033036.18989@raid.dell.com> Date: 28 Jul 92 03:30:36 GMT Sender: james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen) Reply-To: james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen) Organization: Dell Computer Co Lines: 29 I am running 386BSD 0.1 on a Dell 433P with 16 MB of DRAM, using an Adaptec 1542B with a 660 MB Micropolis SCSI disk and an HP 2 GB SCSI DAT tape drive. I am having trouble writing to the tape drive. The major/minor numbers I'm using are 13/32. Here's the contents of /var/log/messages after "tar cvf /dev/ras4a /usr/local/src": pc0<color> at 0x60 irq 1 on isa com1 at 0x3f8 irq 4 on isa com2 at 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa fd0 drives 0: 1.2M at 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2 on isa as0 at 0x330 irq 11 drq 5 on isa we0 starlan address 00:00:c0:6e:66:23 at 0x300 irq 9 on isa npx0 at 0xf0 irq 13 on isa changing root device to as0a as0: attached tgt 0 <MICROP 1588-15MB1036511 AS0C> winchester disk as0: attached tgt 4 <HP HP35480A A> tape as4a: controller error 0x12 writing fsbn 0-19 scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 as4a: controller error 0x12 writing fsbn 20-39 scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .... more controller errors and scsi sense lines... Any guesses as to what's wrong? -- -- James R. Van Artsdalen james@bigtex.cactus.org "Live Free or Die" Dell Computer Co 9505 Arboretum Blvd Austin TX 78759 512-338-8789