Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:52:09 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Travan-20 tape streamer: unit not ready Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903251148500.8651-100000@feral-gw> In-Reply-To: <199903251944.LAA21406@mina.sr.hp.com>
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> > > Yes, somebody else has noticed this. > > It may have been me. I originally posted this message to > freebsd-hardware, and then posted it to -scsi when there were no > comments. Uh- nope: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> had the same trouble.. > > > What I want to know is why these > > units accept neither a LOAD to BOT or a REWIND. Is media loaded? > > Yes, although the media was "initialized" under Windows. I'm > starting to wonder if this drive needs some very special driver support > (in the same way that a win-modem or a win-printer needs special driver > support). > > I may play with it some more, tonight, if I have the time. > Well- this is a new one for me. I'm wondering whether the media has to be formatted- sort of like what the older Sony Beta units had to have happen. Try using camcontrol to run format on the media- maybe that'd work? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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