Problems with ExaByte Tape Drive??

[Frank P. Bresz]

Hello,

	This morning after months of successful use my Exabyte tape drive
just 'took a dump' as we say.  It kept giving me device not ready or
offline?  (Not exact text).  Anyway I did a dd if=/dev/rst2 a few times on
it to try and read the tape headers I have for my backup tapes and after
several tries I received this in my console window.

si0:  si_cmd: no command phase
si0:  resetting scsi bus
        csr= 0x1407  bcr= 0  tcr= 0x0
        cbsr= 0x40 (DATA OUT)  cdr= 0x0  mr= 0x0  bsr= 0x18
        target= 0, lun= 0    DMA addr= 0x0  count= 0 (0)
        cdb=    0  0  0  0  0  0
        last phase= 0x81 (Arbitration)
        last phase= 0x8c (Cmd complete MSG)   0
        last phase= 0xc (STATUS)   2
        last phase= 0x8 (COMMAND)   0   0
        last phase= 0x81 (Arbitration)
        last phase= 0x8c (Cmd complete MSG)   0
        last phase= 0xc (STATUS)   0
        last phase= 0x4 (DATA IN)   16


	Guess what after it reset now it works.  Anyone have any idea why
this is.

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