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- From: athos@eyrie.img.com.au (David Burren)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 386BSD 0.1 scsi tape problem
- Message-ID: <712469595.7791@eyrie.img.com.au>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 04:13:16 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.033036.18989@raid.dell.com>
- Organization: img Consultants, Melbourne, Australia
- Lines: 28
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- In <1992Jul28.033036.18989@raid.dell.com> james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
-
- >I am running 386BSD 0.1 on a Dell 433P with 16 MB of DRAM, using an
- >Adaptec 1542B with a 660 MB Micropolis SCSI disk and an HP 2 GB SCSI
- >DAT tape drive. I am having trouble writing to the tape drive.
-
- > changing root device to as0a
- > as0: attached tgt 0 <MICROP 1588-15MB1036511 AS0C> winchester disk
- > as0: attached tgt 4 <HP HP35480A A> tape
- > as4a: controller error 0x12 writing fsbn 0-19
- > scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- > as4a: controller error 0x12 writing fsbn 20-39
- > scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
-
- >... more controller errors and scsi sense lines...
-
- >Any guesses as to what's wrong?
-
- I was getting similar sense messages on all SCSI devices until I realised
- the 1540's BIOS wasn't enabled. I haven't had a chance to look at the
- as driver yet, but I think it's possible it's relying on part of the
- board being initialised by the BIOS on boot.
-
- Your disk is apparently behaving, so this might not be your problem, but
- what the hell...
-
- - David B.
- athos@img.com.au
-