On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 07:16:15AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> It's a failing mode sense. Why it's failing with an illegal request seems
> odd. It's not supposed to be chatty.

> What release is this?

Sorry, I thought I put that in. 19981207 snapshot of current. Once we can
use the 19990305 snapshot, I intend to try it. Unfortunately, until I get a
new SCSI cable in place I won't have disk space to compile my own kernel.

And to answer the previous question, I have tried with tar, both on read
and write. The exact problem occurs even when attempting to do an
"mt rewind". It's the problem with mt that prompted this letter.

I don't think it's hardware, because I have a second EXB-8200 on loan, and
it behaves the same way. One other detail that I failed to mention: these
are IBM relabeled drives.

Thanks for all of the help.
David

> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Takahiro Kambe wrote:

> > In message <19990308135126.A1097@rumpole.bohemians.lexington.ky.us>
> > 	on Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:51:27 -0500,
> > 	David Rankin <drankin@bohemians.lexington.ky.us> wrote:
> > > I've plugged an EXB-8200 into my Adaptec 2940 (not UW), and the following
> > > error messages are occuring:

> > > st0(ahc0:6:0):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x1a 00 00 00 0c 00
> > >     SENSE KEY:  Illegal Request
> > >                 EOM Detected
> > >      ASC/ASCQ:  No Additional Sense Information

> > What did you do before this error occured?  I don't beleive that you
> > have done nothing.  Writing with tar(1) or reading?

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