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From: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>
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Subject: Re: Archive Tape Autochanger
In-Reply-To: <199706011447.KAA02181@shell.id.net> from Robert Shady at "Jun 1, 97 10:47:11 am"
To: rls@mail.id.net (Robert Shady)
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:07:31 -0500 (CDT)
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Robert Shady wrote:
> Has anyone gotten the CSC special Archive DAT auto-changer to work
> with FreeBSD yet?  What did you have to do to get it to work?  I
> am starting to wonder if mine is just defective.  I'm running 2.2.2
> release, and when I load a tape, it spits it back out a few seconds
> later, the drive displays "CHK MAG", and the FreeBSD box reports
> ERROR: Vendor specific ASCQ.  Under different versions of FreeBSD
> I have at least been able to load tapes, and run small backups, but
> now it won't even load the tape.

I got it to work.  I could not get it to change tapes using chio
when I had it plugged into my Adaptec 154x but when I put it on my
Adaptec 2940 it worked like a charm.

Paul Saab