troubles with an Exhabyte tape drive

[SCHNEIDER Anthony]

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	4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #8: Tue Sep  3 11:56:05 GMT 2002

	GENERIC i386

Thanks!
-Anthony.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mikhail Teterin [mailto:mi+mx at aldan.algebra.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 4:07 PM
> To: scsi at FreeBSD.org
> Cc: ken at FreeBSD.org; gibbs at FreeBSD.org; SCHNEIDER Anthony
> Subject: troubles with an Exhabyte tape drive
> 
> Hello!
> 
> We can read the tapes using this drive:
> 
> sym0: <875> port 0x2400-0x24ff mem 0x42000000-0x42000fff,0x42100000-
> 0x421000ff
> irq 11 at device 16.0 on pci0
> sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
> sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM
> sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware.
> sa0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> sa0: <EXABYTE EXB-89008E030203 V41e> Removable Sequential Access
SCSI-2
> device
> sa0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
> 
> 
> but we can not write anything :-( The kernel's messages logged are:
> 
> 	(sa0:sym0:0:0:0): WRITE(06). CDB: a 0 0 28 0 0
> 	(sa0:sym0:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:30,5
> 	(sa0:sym0:0:0:0): Cannot write medium - incompatible format
> 
> Is it our clumsiness, or the tapes (we tried about a dozen), or the
> drive? Thanks a lot!
> 
> 	-mi
>