Summary: SCSI error

This is not a real summary, but I'd post it as a summary.

Thanks to:

 "Mike's List"  <mikelist@sky.net>
 Pascal Grostabussiat <pascal@azoria.com>
"Paul Galjan" <galjanpa@cmr.gov>

Most suggest I need to check cable and terminator. The thing bothers
me is that I have used those same cable and terminator for years until
recently. Also if the connection is bad why another tape drive in the
same enclosure doesn't have any problem at all.

This morning, I DID recheck the cable and made everything is firmly
attached. Strange enough the test after that was good!

I will wait to see how good it will last.

--
Shouben Zhou 
National Institute of Aerospace (NIA)
144 Research Dr., Hampton, VA 23666
Tel:  (757) 766-1809, Fax:   (757) 766-1401
Cell: (757) 636-6303, Email: zshouben@nianet.org

> 
> I have two exabyte mammoth-1 tape drives in one enclosure. Recently
> one of tape drives failed with the error:
> 
>   SCSI transport failed: reason 'unexpected_bus_free': giving up
> 
> Retry several times and always fails, but at different file locations
> during the backup. Thought the tape drive was bad and replaced with a
> brand new tape drive. It worked couple times and the same problem happens
> again.
> 
> Is there anything else may go wrong which I over looked? By the way,
> another tape drive sharing the same enclosure works just fine. Do I have
> a defected new tape drive?
> 
> --
> Shouben Zhou 
> National Institute of Aerospace (NIA)
> 144 Research Dr., Hampton, VA 23666
> Tel:  (757) 766-1809, Fax:   (757) 766-1401
> Cell: (757) 636-6303, Email: zshouben@nianet.org
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