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Date:      Fri, 23 May 1997 12:17:39 -0600
From:      Joshua Fielden <shag@concentric.net>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI tape config
Message-ID:  <3385DF43.7AF874CD@concentric.net>
References:  <199705222322.QAA15372@superior.mooseriver.com> <19970523084907.AC18072@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> As Josef Grosch wrote:
> 
> > I've got this old Wangtek tape drive that handles QIC-150 tapes. THis drive
> > came out of an old Sun shoebox and has an adapter board to allow a SCSI
> > controller to driver it. My question is how does one set the SCSI id. There
> > are a number of jumpers on the adapter board, which was made by
> > Emulex. Does anyone know anthing about these?
> 
> AFAIK, you can't.  I've recently tried this at somebody where i was
> giving a training course, and the outcome of their technicians was
> that this old Emulex adapter is frozen to SCSI ID 4.
> 
> The drive itself should be QIC-02, so if you've got an interface card
> for this, you could use it directly with the wt(4) driver.
> 
> --
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

 <rummaging through SUN Field Admin's Handbook> I must concur that it is
stuck at that ID. If you want all the DIP and jumper settings, though,
lemme know. I knew there was a reason I kept those books. :-)
-- 
SCSI is *not* magic.  There are many technical
reasons why it is occasionally nessicary to 
sacrifice a small goat to your SCSI chain.
 -- Joshua Fielden



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