Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:29:35 -0400 From: "Long, Scott" <Scott_Long@adaptec.com> To: "'Paul Radford'" <p.radford@niwa.co.nz>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: ciss driver support for tape drives? Message-ID: <6100BCEB85F8E244959C756C04E0EDD161CAE8@otcexc01.otc.adaptec.com>
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> Hi, > > I've got a Compaq DL320 server here, with a SmartArray 532 SCSI/RAID > controller in it. The "ciss" driver detects the logical RAID volume > attached to the controller, but it does not detect the two DLT tape > drives attached to it on the external port. However, they are > detected > by the BIOS on boot, so there is nothing physically wrong (all > terminated, cabled correctly, etc). > > From my reading of the "ciss" driver source, the driver only > supports > logical drives, i.e. disk arrays. Although the tape drives > are supported > by the card, they are not supported by the driver. > > Is this correct, and if so, is it likely to change? I'd love > to know if > anybody has gotten tape drives working on a ciss-supported card. I'd > hate to have to put Linux on the box just to get tape support in the > driver. :( > > System: 4.6-STABLE as of August 27, driver source hasn't noticeably > changed in 4.7-RELEASE either (I checked). > camcontrol is of no help whatsoever, it just reports the > logical drive. > > > Thanks for any help, > Paul Radford > SCSI passthrough is not supported by the CISS driver. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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