On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 10:51:37AM +0200, Petter Lindquist wrote:
> Is the drive borken or is it the driver?
> I've tried two different drives, none of them works.
> HP drives, NetBSD 1.6 on i386.
> (Used cleaning tape and brand new data tape... DDS2)
> 
> Apr 13 17:46:32 bunke /netbsd: st0(siop0:0:2:0): command timeout
> Apr 13 17:46:32 bunke /netbsd: siop0: scsi bus reset
> Apr 13 17:46:32 bunke /netbsd: st0(siop0:0:2:0): command with tag id 0
> reset
> Apr 13 17:46:32 bunke /netbsd: st0: async, 8-bit transfers
> Apr 13 17:46:32 bunke /netbsd: st0: sync (100.0ns offset 8), 8-bit
> (10.000MB/s) transfers
> Apr 13 17:47:27 bunke /netbsd: st0(siop0:0:2:0):  DEFERRED ERROR, key =
> 0x3
> Apr 13 17:47:27 bunke /netbsd: st0(siop0:0:2:0):  Check Condition on CDB:
> 0x10 00 00 00 02 00
> Apr 13 17:47:27 bunke /netbsd:     SENSE KEY:  Media Error
> Apr 13 17:47:27 bunke /netbsd:      ASC/ASCQ:  Positioning Error
> Apr 13 17:47:27 bunke /netbsd:

Looks like the drive/tape fails (Media error on write filemark).
On DAT drives retries take a very long time until the drive gives up.
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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)