Subject: Re: scsi DLT tape drives
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/08/2004 14:04:29
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Patrick Welche wrote:

>
> st0 at scsibus1 target 6 lun 0: <BNCHMARK, DLT1, 5032> tape removable
> st0: drive empty
> st0: sync (100.00ns offset 15), 16-bit (20.000MB/s) transfers
> st0(mpt1:0:6:0): command timeout
> st0: error 16 trying to rewind
> st0: WARNING: cannot revert to default density
> *reboot*
> st0 at scsibus1 target 6 lun 0: <BNCHMARK, DLT1, 5032> tape removable
> st0: drive empty
> # mt status
> SCSI tape drive, residual=0
> ds=3<Mounted>
> er=6<>
> blocksize: 0 (0, 0, 0, 0)
> density: 64 (0, 0, 0, 0)
> current file number: 0
> current block number: 0

 	I'm using a similar drive (HP) on an siop controller in a Dell
 	PowerEdge 1300 box. Runs under 1.6 and 2.0_BETA without any
 	problems, but I've never had anything else on the same bus.
 	Recently put a second proc in the box which gives some
 	interesting overlapped boot messages...

% dmesg | egrep scsi\|^sd\|^ahc\|^st
ahc0 at pci2 dev 11 function 0: Adaptec aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI adapter
ahc0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 16 (irq 6)
ahc0: aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
scsibus0 at ahc0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
siop0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0: Symbios Logic 53c810a (fast scsi)
scsibus1 at siop0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
cd1: drive supports PIO mode 4sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <QUANTUM, ATLAS IV 9 WLS, 0808> disk fixed
sd0: 8683 MB, 13816 cyl, 4 head, 321 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 17783249 sectors
sd0: sync (25.00ns offset 31), 16-bit (80.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
sd1 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <QUANTUM, ATLAS IV 9 WLS, 0808> disk fixed
sd1: 8683 MB, 13816 cyl, 4 head, 321 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 17783249 sectors
sd1: sync (25.00ns offset 31), 16-bit (80.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
st0 at scsibus1 target 5 lun 0: <BNCHMARK, DLT1, 5032> tape removable
st0: density code 64, variable blocks, write-enabled
st0: sync (100.00ns offset 8), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers

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