by Does anyone have any advice for installing an Exabyte 8205 2.3 GB 8mm
SCSI tape drive on a SPARCstation 20 under SunOS 5.3? I suspect my
problem is improper modification of the /kernel/dev/st.conf file, but I
don't know what the proper modification is. All attempts to "tar", "dd"
or otherwise access the drive give the following mess:
data transfer overrun
esp: State=DATA Last State=DATA_DONE
esp: Latched stat=0x90<IPND, XZERO> intr=0x10<BUS> fifo 0x80
esp: last msg out: <unknown msg>; last msg in: IDENTIFY
esp: DMA csr=0xa4240010<INTEN>
esp: addr=fc00d270 dmaent=8000 last=fc00aa70 last_cut=2800
esp: Cmd dump for Target 4 Lun 0:
esp: cdblen=6, cdb=[ 0xa 0x1 0x0 0x0 0x14 0x0]
esp: pkt_state=0xf<XFER, CMD, SEL, ARB> pkt_flags=0x0 pkt_statistics=0x3
esp: cmd_flags=0x10c22 cmd_timeout=120
800000 (esp):
target 4.0 reducing sync. transfer rate
polled command timeout
...then the whole mess repeats again, but this time says...
SCSI TRANSPORT FAILED: reason 'data_over': giving up
or TARGET 4.0 REVERTING TO ASYNC. MODE
or DATA TRANSFER OVERRUN
I'm at wit's end. Any suggestions? Please post or e-mail. Thanks in advance.
Chris Cowell