sa(4) driver changes available for test

Dan Langille dan at langille.org
Sun Mar 1 19:50:01 UTC 2015


> On Feb 28, 2015, at 6:42 PM, Dan Langille <dan at langille.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 28, 2015, at 6:15 PM, Kenneth D. Merry <ken at FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 17:29:48 -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 18, 2015, at 7:13 PM, Kenneth D. Merry <ken at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I have updated the patches.
>>>> 
>>>> I have removed the XPT_DEV_ADVINFO changes from the patches to head, since
>>>> I committed those separately.
>>>> 
>>>> I have (hopefully) fixed the build for the stable/10 patches by MFCing
>>>> dependencies.  (One of them mav did for me, thanks!)
>>>> 
>>>> Rough draft commit message:
>>>> 
>>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/sa_changes_commitmsg.20150218.1.txt
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I have current installed and running with Bacula, but I have not tried the tape drive yet.
>> 
>> Thanks for all your work on this!
>> 
>>> It seems like your changes are in there from about 5 days ago.
>> 
>> Yes, that is correct.
>> 
>>> Having solved my server hardware issues, I'm now having issues with the autochanger mechanism 
>>> of the tape library.  
>> 
>> Does it work with chio(1)?
>> 
>> Does it look like hardware or software?  (If it is software, I can help
>> with that.)
>> 
>> 
> 
> Hardware. The screw drive for the tape robot is sticky. It can be moved by hand, but the motor in this DL 891 cannot. It might need lube. It was suspect last time I used it.  Worst case, I will remove ins of the two DLT 8000 tape drives and load tapes manually. 

A bit of lube, and we have POST: https://twitter.com/DLangille/status/572117570997919744

More, soon.

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Dan Langille
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