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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: Dat tape drive problems
Message-ID: <D8HI9E.8Ir@tfs.com>
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Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 21:27:13 GMT
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In article <3or9ga$1ul@noc1.portland.net>,
news.biddeford.com <jernst@biddeford.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I work for a ISP and we are haveing trouble
>with BSD/386 1.1
er, are you SURE it's BSD/386?
not FreeBSD 1.1?
(this is the FreeBSD newsgroup, not the Bsdi newsgroup)

but your error messages do look a LOT like the FreeBSD messages..

>
>It is the DAT tape drive we use is giveing SCSI Errors.
>
>sd0:scsi sense: Recoverd error: asc 0x18, ascq 0x1
this should not be an error, hopefully it's just a message..
>
>and 
>
>aha0: command timed out   (the backup died)
this IS a problem, and indicates a failure somewhere in the SCSI 
infrastructure.. it MIGHT be in the SW or it MIGHT be in the HW.

>
>They seem to be completely at random on some occasions 
>the backup works perfectly.
>
>We are useing an intel box with a barracuda SCSI 1.5gig drive, a 
>BusLogic scsi adapter. and have an active terminator terminating.
hmm it looks like you are running BSDI..
the buslogic has a separate driver under FreeBSD, that runs faster

>
>any sujestion would be great.
use FreeBSD?
:)
>Thanks
>
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