[plug] SCSI probs

[David Griffiths]

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>> I'm having some intermittent SCSI problems on a dual cpu system.
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>At a guess you are using a 4mm DAT system and the tape heads need cleaning.
>Other than that it could be that the tape you are using (or should I say
>re-using?) is getting a little old. I see this happen here in my office, it
>is time to junk the tape, clean the heads and start with a fresh tape.
>
>David Campbell

Thanks for the feedback David. Don't think it's the tape heads or dud tape
(new drive, cleaned regularly and newish tape), but your comments did make
me look more closely at the tape side of things. (I had been assuming the
probs were a continuation of bus timeouts/resets that have been plaguing
this system for a while under the 2.2.14 kernel.)

Looking at the tape archives, it may have been something as simple as the
tape running out - looks like bru using the nrtape device behaves
differently under linux than it does under IRIX and has been appending
archives when I thought it was writing at the start of the tape.

By the way, the exabyte is an 8 mm tape system.

Cheers,

Dave.



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