Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 06:51:57PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> > Heh, I just sent a message to port-alpha about exabytes on siop.  I see
> > 
> > 	st1 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <DEC, TKZ09   90097000, 045H> SCSI2 1/sequential removable
> > 	st1: drive empty
> > 	siop0: target 6 asynchronous
> > 	probe(siop0:6:1):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x00 20 00 00 00 00
> > 	    SENSE KEY:  Aborted Command
> > 	     ASC/ASCQ:  Message Error
> > 
> > on boot, and AFAICR I only get the "Check Condition" message when the
> > drive is empty.  This is on vanilla 1.5 and not -current.
> 
> And when you don't get this message, does the drive properly negotiate sync ?
> I suspect it doesn't like the sync message, for some reason ...

Good question!  My /var/log/messages.* logfiles don't include a case
where the drive isn't empty.  I'll try to remember to leave a tape in
for next time the power fails.

Simon.
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