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Date:      Thu, 2 Feb 2006 06:20:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      RA Cohen <roy2098@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        illoai@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Compaq Integrated SmartArray Quantum DLT4000
Message-ID:  <20060202142034.72674.qmail@web31613.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0602012048t6cc928fdg288793917f806eff@mail.gmail.com>

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I was physically at the machine yesterday with the SmartStart CD
in hand, but as I was about to boot off that CD thought it would
be only useful for setting up drive arrays...not the tape drive.
So I didn't pursue it. I'll have to check it out later today...

I'll let you and the maillist know,
Roy

--- "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/1/06, RA Cohen <roy2098@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm running several Compaq Proliant DL360 servers, all with
> FBSD
> > 6.0-RELEASE.
> >
> > One of these has an internal Quantum DLT 4000 (that's how
> the
> > BIOS identifies it) tape drive. I need to use it, but can
> find
> > no evidence of this hardware in the dmesg output.
> . . .
> > The system sees the integrated controller and uses ida0 to
> id
> > it, but does not see the tape drive.
> >
> 
> If it's anything like my old proliant, the tape drive
> is on ncr0 or ncr1 (or sym[01] any of which are the
> on-board scsi controllers), which do not appear to probe
> on your system.  If your tape drive is cabled to
> ida0 or ida1, you'll probably need to resort to the
> array controller firmware or CD, depending, and
> set it up from there.
> 
> 
> --
> --
> 


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