Hi Guys,
Just recently acquired a cast off Sun DDS3 SCSI tape drive. It's an
external unit and connected to my internal Adaptec 2940UW
controller. The problem i'm experiencing is anytime I try issuing a
command with mt for instance:
% mt -f /dev/rst0 status
The mt process will just hang, the process at that point is
completely un-killable implying that there's some kinda blocking read
system call happening. I've tried the tape drive on another machine
and it seems to work fine. On boot dmesg identifies the controller
and drive fine, and when booted with a tape loaded it acquires info
about the tape itself.
-- dmesg output --
ahc0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "Adaptec AHA-2940U" rev 0x00: irq 11
scsibus2 at ahc0: 16 targets
st0 at scsibus2 targ 4 lun 0: <HP, C1537A, L706> SCSI2 1/sequential
removable
st0: density code 0x8c, variable blocks, write-enabled
Has anyone seen this problem before or have any suggestions as to how
I may fix it?
Cheers,
Marcus
