Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 14:55:43 -0800 (PST) From: "Craig Shaver" <craig@ProGroup.COM> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help adding SCSI tape drive Message-ID: <199612172255.OAA15384@seabass.progroup.com> In-Reply-To: <9612172055.AA04467@hamlet.lanl.gov.lanl.gov> from "Charlie Sorsby" at Dec 17, 96 01:55:44 pm
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> > > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.5 from the Walnut Creek CDROM. Me too! > > I just bought a used SCSI tape drive. I could only afford the > least costly: Uh, oh! > > Archive/Conner/Seagate 2150S > HH-Internal-SCSI Tape 150/300Mg, 1 New 6150 Tape Included. Got 2 of these. > > According to the stickers it's the Archive. > > I have only two weeks to decide if the drive is OK and the clock > began yesterday... del ... > > The tape drive came jumpered for SCSI ID 4 and I left it that way. Ok. > > The 2940 scsi utilities (I guess it's actually the Adaptec scsi > utilities) see only the disk drive, the CDROM drive, and the host > adapter (SCSI ID 7). Does the drive power on? There should be a led on the face plate, does it light up? > > The tape drive is not at the end of the cable and it has an empty > termination resistor socket above the SCSI connector. Ok. > > Trying tar to see if it's really there anyway: Don't bother.... > ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:12 > ahc0: aic7870 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs > ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle > (ahc0:0:0): "IBM DORS-32160 WA0A" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 2063MB (4226725 512 byte sectors) > (ahc0:1:0): "SONY CD-ROM CDU-76S 1.1c" type 5 removable SCSI 2 > cd0(ahc0:1:0): CD-ROM > cd0(ahc0:1:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 > cd0(ahc0:1:0): Not ready to ready transition, medium may have changed > cd present.[400000 x 2048 byte records] It is not being seen by the controller. It probably is a bad tape unit. Return it, or make them show you it works in one of their computers. -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088
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