On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:59:54PM +1000, Ioan Nemes wrote:
> Sydney, 23 April 2001
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I connected a Sony STD-7000 SCSI-2 tape drive to my (new) NetBSD 1.5
> system.
> The drive is recognized at the boot time:
> 
> ...
> ahc: target2 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset=0xf
> st0 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <SONY, STD-7000, 0300> SCSI2
> 1/sequential removable
> st0: drive empty
> ...
> 
> In the /dev, I've got:
> 
> ...
> brw-rw----	1	root	operator	5, 0 Apr 24 05:4	st0
> ...
> 
> When I try to backup:
> 
> # find . -print | cpio -ocv > /dev/st0
> 
> I am getting a few line:
> 
> .
> ./local
> ./local/bin
> ./local/lib
> ./local/libdata
> ./local/libexec
> ahc1: target 2 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0xf
> Apr 24 06:28:28 /netbsd: ahc: target 2 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset =
> 0xf

Don't you get anything else out of the kernel (like a SCSI bus reset or
something) ? Maybe it appears in dmesg ...
Did you try wrinting to the tape with tar instead, or change the block
size ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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