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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: [386BSD] SCSI tape drive problem Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 01:25:09 GMT Message-ID: <Bx499y.1uI@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <1992Oct30.161309.20856@hpcvmcdj.cv.hp.com> Lines: 22 In <1992Oct30.161309.20856@hpcvmcdj.cv.hp.com> carlj@hpcvmcdj.cv.hp.com (Carl Johnson) writes: >I have been trying to get my Archive 2525 tape drive to use DC600 tapes, >but it errors out every time when using Julius's scsi driver. I can use >DC6525 tapes, but I have lots of surplus DC600 that will work in QIC-120 >format using other systems and the original scsi driver for 386bsd. It >looks like the tape drive is telling the system that it can accept >variable size blocks which is not true in QIC-120 mode, so it gives an >illegal request error when the system tries to write using non-standard >block sizes. This is a known bug in the Archive 2525S firmware. It always reports that it accepts variable size blocks, even for QIC-150 and lower formats. Julian? -- Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org AIX is a better... is a better... is a better... OpenSystem. IBM Rep at GUUG Symposium '92