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- From: zrgl0376@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Cowboy aka Bjoern Lemke)
- Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive not accessible
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.080507.29145@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- Organization: User Help Desk, Comp. Cent. (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
- References: <TMH.92Jul23041936@keks.first.gmd.de>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 08:05:07 GMT
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- In article <TMH.92Jul23041936@keks.first.gmd.de> tmh@keks.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg) writes:
- >I managed to get the "Tiny BSD" floppy accross the modem and got
- >386BSD installed on my system (486/33, 16MB, ET4000/8514, AHA1542, 1GB
- >Wren VII + 88MB Syquest SCSI drives, Tandberg TDC3800 QIC 525 SCSI
- >Streamer). The SCSI disks are at targets 0+1, the tape drive is at
- >target 4. On boot up, only the first disk is recognized. Trying to
- >read off /dev/ras1a seems to attach the Syquest drive. Any attempt to
- >read /dev/ras4a results in an error. cat </dev/ras4a returns "bad file
- >descriptor", cpio -itvc </dev/ras4a returns "error 9". All other
- >targets return "sense errors" with lots of status data (mostly zeros).
- >Does 386 support only certain tape drives? The drive works fine with
- >ISC UNIX, DOS (various programs) and OS/2 (modified GTAR).
-
- I run into a similar problem. I used a Fujitsu 2624 Harddisk with the same
- Streamer (Tandberg). Setting the tape drive to target 4, resulted in
- nonrecognizing the streamer. (My harddisk is set to target 0). But after
- setting the tape device to target 1, the scsi controller got it and
- i was able to read and write from the device (/dev/ras1a) including some
- scsi error messages (sense 0 0 0 0 .. and so on). I am not a scsi guru
- and I don't know if this method is proper, but for the moment it works.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Bjoern
-
-
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- Bjoern Lemke --*-- RUS --*-- University of Stuttgart --*-- Germany
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