Bron@cup.portal.com (George Bron Faison) (12/02/90)
Niklas: Don't know if this will help or not but you sounded desparate :-{ so I thought I'd pass it along for what it's worth (reference an Archive SCSI tape hangiing on open). I've seen similar problems with Archive drives both SCSI and non-SCSI under ISC 386/ix 2.x.x and we found a kludgy solution, that was to always call the Archive "ctape" utility with a rewind call. Apparently this resets the board or something, at any rate, since we started doing this we've never had another cartridge tape hang. Just do a "ctape rewind" in your shell script or system(...) if C program and maybe it will help. I send this idea along for what it's worth and hope that it helps. This does seem to be a common problem for Archive cartridge tape drives...maybe they should fix it, eh? Bron @ cup.portal.com
jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) (12/05/90)
In article <36447@cup.portal.com> Bron@cup.portal.com (George Bron Faison) writes: >Niklas: > >Don't know if this will help or not but you sounded desparate :-{ so I >thought I'd pass it along for what it's worth (reference an Archive SCSI tape >hangiing on open). Not SCSI, but using the SC499R controller here. I think it is QIC-02. > >I've seen similar problems with Archive drives both SCSI and non-SCSI >under ISC 386/ix 2.x.x and we found a kludgy solution, that was to always >call the Archive "ctape" utility with a rewind call. Apparently this resets >the board or something, at any rate, since we started doing this we've never >had another cartridge tape hang. Just do a "ctape rewind" in your shell >script or system(...) if C program and maybe it will help. > >I send this idea along for what it's worth and hope that it helps. This >does seem to be a common problem for Archive cartridge tape drives...maybe >they should fix it, eh? > >Bron @ cup.portal.com I tried this idea tonight and found that it SORTENS the number of times that I can use the device before a hang occurs. I just wish that SOMEONE, ANYONE, even a janitor or one of the cockroaches would return my call. I hate waiting for 15 minutes then leaving a message then not getting a call back. Oh well. Jim -- ARPANET: jadpc!jdeitch@nosc.mil INTERNET: jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com UUCP: nosc!jadpc!jdeitch