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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?




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