Joe Landman wrote:
> Have you adjusted the block size up? maybe try
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 bs=8M count=1000
The tape has a 64Mb on board buffer and somewhere in the manual it said
that it shouldn't matter. But no, I have not tried that yet and will
do so tomorrow.
> This said, have you tried the "obvious" tests, such as what does lsscsi
> report, and lscpi -v for that adapter, and ...
Maybe it will mean more to you than it does to me...
% lsscsi --long
[8:0:0:0] tape HP Ultrium 3-SCSI D21D /dev/st0
state=running queue_depth=32 scsi_level=4 type=1 device_blocked=0
timeout=900
lspci -v
04:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec ASC-29320ALP U320 (rev 10)
Subsystem: Adaptec ASC-29320LPE PCIe U320
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 4400 [disabled] [size=256]
Memory at d8400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
I/O ports at 4000 [disabled] [size=256]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at d8600000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/1
Enable-
Capabilities: [94] PCI-X non-bridge device
/proc/interrupts shows that this controller is the only thing on
IRQ 19.
Thanks,
David Mathog
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Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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