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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.tpp.com!usenet From: forest@teamx.riatax.com (Forest Wilkinson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Exabyte 8mm and FreeBSD (and 4mm DATs) Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 19:24:17 GMT Organization: Research Institute of America, Team X Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4nikbg$99r@news.tpp.com> References: <4ncrg3$98h@fnnews.fnal.gov> <4nf73f$22s@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: gateway.tpp.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 >> Is anyone successfully using an Exabyte 8mm drive with FreeBSD ? Yes. I'm using an 8505 with FreeBSD 2.1R >> I recently tried and 8500C with FreeBSD 2.2-current and it locks the >> system up solid after transferring a gig or so of data. I've done over a gig with multiple dumps on a single tape, but I'm not sure if any single dump has ever been much over a gig. I tried a Maynard 4mm DAT a couple of times, and it caused FreeBSD's SCSI support to blow up in my face. First I got SCSI errors, then a kernel panic. When I rebooted I found that my root filesystem had been corrupted beyond repair. It was horrible. I hope that's fixed in the next release. Forest