Sorry for the long delay on this. I finally have working tape again, got
it fixxed about 3 weeks ago. Upgraded to current as of May 24th and put
the old drive back in. Everything is working correctly again. I'm a bit
scared to change out the tape drive for more testing.
Chris
> On Fri
> On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 08:45:36PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >
> > Exabyte is not particularly famous for stable firmware.
>
> I have quite a number of 8200's here (though I don't really use them
> much anymore since I now have a Mammoth) that I have installed new
> firmware in. From an ema
> As Christopher T. Johnson wrote ...
>
> > REGARDLESS!
> > The drive is reporting an error condition and that error is NOT
> > getting back to user land. I've verified the problem with amdump
>
> Oh? Where/what is the error, does the console tell yo
Matthew,
Thanks I should have been more clear.
The amber LED on 8205s and 8505s and any of the half hight drives blink when
they need cleaning. This is the original 8200 full hight drives. They
have no cleaning indicator.
The drive is cleaned every monday before the amflush. We use exabyte 8m
Some extra information on tape problems:
FreeBSD neunacht.netgsi.com 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Apr 22
16:50:33 EDT 1999 root@:/m/src/sys/compile/NEUNACHT i386
This is SMP machine with scsi only.
The tape drive is an EXABYTE-8200.
When doing tape IO that lasts for an extend period
