hull@sunybcs.UUCP (Jon Hull) (06/19/87)
If you have the Xylogics 472 tape controller and the Sun Multibus to VMEBUS adapter on a Sun workstation, please send me the switch settings for these boards. We have installed them here and set the switches according to our interpretation of the manuals. The boards work just fine for small files but have occasional problems writing large tars and dumps. Sometimes an interrupt is lost and the tar or dump fails in the middle. Therefore, I would like the switch settings to verify that our set-up is correct. Any other advice you could offer will be greatly appreciated. We are using the Fujitsu 2444AC tape drive. Thanks very much in advance, Jon Hull =========================== Here are some example error messages that appear on the console: Jun 17 10:30 xt0: lost interrupt xt: bad command synchronization xt: bad command synchronization xt: bad command synchronization xt: attempting reset xt0: lost interrupt xt: bad command synchronization xt: bad command synchronization xt0: stray interrupt Jun 17 11:00 xt0: lost interrupt xt: bad command synchronization xt: bad command synchronization xt0: stray interrupt ===================================== P.S. This is the tape controller and adapter Sun sells for their 1600/6250 bpi tape system. I called the local Sun people but they wouldn't assist me because I didn't purchase the controller and drive from them.