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Re: Linux hangs with Exabyte tape drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Paul Morrison)
Thu May 18 02:43:42 1995
From: John Paul Morrison <jmorriso@Master.ConcordPacific.Com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 23:10:22 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <9505171226.AA12482@Moon.COAM.USM.Edu> from "Evan Willett" at May 17, 95 07:26:42 am
> > any ideas why Linux is doing this? Harddisk access is fine.
> >
>
> Try using linux 1.2.6 and if that does not work, then the problem may be
what changed from 1.2.6 to 1.2.8 to affect SCSI tapes?
> driver specific. There are patches to the 2940W(don't know if they apply to
> the 2940), which are at ftp://remus.nrl.navy.mil/pub/Linux.
I didn't know about this patch, I am still using the original
27/28/2940 patches from ucalgary, dating back last year. I'd begun to
wonder whether this series had been abandoned.
This driver really should go into the standard kernel, it's getting far
too common.
>
> I have a Exabyte 7GB 8505XL working under linux 1.2.6 with a Adaptec
> 1542CF. I can read/write to tape fine, but I don't know how to access
> different densities(ie 2GB, 5GB, 7GB or compressed formats). I couldn't
> read a 5GB format Exabyte tape from another system on a Exabyte 8505 tape.
> Any ideas on accessing different density formats?
I don't know how to change densities.
>
> Evan
>
