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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!not-for-mail From: forkin@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Christopher Forkin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: ARCHIVE Viper QIC-150 problems Date: 2 Jul 1996 11:45:51 GMT Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Lines: 27 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4rb25f$9nd@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: atbayer4.informatik.tu-muenchen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Hello there, I recently decided to give FreeBSD 2.1 a try after having used Linux since the old 0.99pl13 days. Installing and so on a breeze the only problem left is my old trusty SCSI streamer, an ARCHIVE Viper QIC-150 (150 Mb) doesn't seem to work properly. I've still got Linux running on my machine and the problems don't occur in Linux so i assume it's not a hardware-problem: my machine: ASUS-SP3G 486DX4/100 48 Mb memory PS-200 ASUS PCI SCSI controller NCR 53C810 based 1 GB Dec SCSI harddisk, 540 MB ibm SCSI harddisk Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller ARCHIVE Viper QIC-150 streamer (hooked to the Adaptec 1542B) the symptoms: tar/dump/mt work as expected apart from the fact that the streamer doesn't stream the data onto the tape but seams to write something rewind the tape check the data and write the next bit and so on. In other words when I write something on the tape the streamer drives me up the wall by constantly winding the tape back and forth :( Just to make sure, Linux doesn't show the behaviour ! Thanks in advance for any answers, even RTFM's and such :) CU Chris Forkin -- forkin@informatik.tu-muenchen.de