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- From: mjacob@kpc.COM (Matthew Jacob)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: 4.1.2 miniroot and EXB 8200SX problem?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.013216.11112@kpc.com>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 01:32:16 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.191255.17903@noao.edu>
- Sender: usenet@kpc.com
- Reply-To: mjacob@kpc.COM (Matthew Jacob)
- Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer, Inc.
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- >st0: Generic Drive, Vendor=<EXABYTE>
- > Unknown type- assuming 0.25 inch cartridge
- > Fixed record length (1024 byte blocks) I/O
- >Restoring Exabyte tapes when the system thinks it's really a QIC doesn't
- >work very well...
-
- Oh dear, the automatic device determiner isn't working. It must
- be because the Exabyte returns '0' for the density field for the first
- mode sense. '0' means a helpful 'default density', rather than the
- more useful SCSI-2 code of 0x14 (8 mm helical scan).
-
- Unfortunately, the inquiry data of:
-
- 'EXABYTE 8200SX'
-
- neither matches "EXABYTE EXB-8500" nor "EXABYTE EXB-8200", which is
- what the fallback table in 4.1.2 has for exabytes. In previous releases,
- the match was against just plain "EXABYTE", but that caused problems
- when the 8500 showed up.
-
- If you can't make a new kernel, you're hosed. If you can, edit
- the table in /sys/scsi/targets/st_conf.c as appropriate.
- I'd also complain to your exabyte rep.
-
- I'd also file a bug at Sun (Hah! fixed in NT! :-;)
-
- -matt
-