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- From: lee@dlpco.dlpco.COM uunet!mlite!tom@uunet.UU.NET (Lee Penn )
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- Subject: SCSI eiad selection error, Sankyo Tape driv
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 18:33:17 GMT
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- I'm getting an error message from my system which has be puzzled.
- It does not cause a problem, but we see the error every morning
- when we come in after a CTAR backup to my Sankyo 1 Gig tape
- drive.
-
- NOTICE: eiad: Error (Selection Timeout) on SCSI adapter 0 (ha 0
- id 2 lun 0)
-
- I get this error message 4 times during our nightly ctar backup.
- I think it comes actually from the verify step rather than the
- actual backup step.
-
- If I try to run the verify from the csave menu, then I get the
- error message pops up after a while and ctar asks if I should do
- error recovery. If I reply with a yes, then the verify continues
- onward. During the nightly backup/verify, I am assuming that
- ctar simply retries automatically.
-
- This is an irritating, but not disasterous problem and only
- occurs with the tape drive. I suspect that backing off the
- blocking factor to 20 rather than 64 might help, but am not sure.
-
- It looks like a kernal problem to me, but am not sure.
-
- This is being forwarded to Microlite as well as SCO as a problem
- as I think it is a kernal driver issue.
-
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