by Hi,
I'm running FreeBSD 3.2 on a K6. I recently installed an HP Colorado 14GB
Travan
tape drive as a slave IDE drive. I'm pretty sure the electrical work is all
right, because
the drive is correctly identified in the boot-time messages. I configured
in wst0,
rebuilt, and did a MAKEDEV. Now /dev/rwst0 is there, and looks to me like
it's got
the right major and minor numbers.
Any time I try to do anything with the drive, however -- via tar, dump, mt,
or other
program, whether I'm writing data or doing ioctls -- the operation hangs
forever
in D-wait.
Are there known problems with the wst0 driver? Can anyone suggest a fix (or
even
a way to collect better information on the failure)? The hardware FAQ
didn't have
anything relevant, and I couldn't turn up any recent newsgroup articles on
the
topic.
I'll keep an eye on the newsgroup for responses, but I'd appreciate it if
you would
email responses directly to me. Thanks in advance for any help you can
offer!
mike