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Re: Syquest drives and Linux.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SL Baur)
Thu Sep 18 03:48:04 1997
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From: SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org>
In-Reply-To: "Michael Burger"'s message of "Thu, 18 Sep 97 00:00:13 -0400"
Date: 18 Sep 1997 00:36:40 -0700
Michael Burger <mburger@compucomis.net> writes:
> Just installed a Syquest Syjet 1.5GB in my system, and Linux seems to
> know it's there, but can't access it when I try to run
> fdisk...failing with a message that it "can't open /dev/sdb."
Your problem is almost certainly due to the fact you didn't get the
disk inserted properly (it is extremely difficult). Is the green
light glowing on the outside? If it isn't, you haven't inserted the
disk properly. *Very gently* reseat the disk after insertion until
you see the light start flashing yellow (the flashing will stop after
awhile and the LED will glow green). Be gentle, but persistent.
> At boot, it's recognizing that the drive is there at /dev/sdb...anyone
> have any luck with thesedrives?
Pretty much. I've had a couple of Syjet related crashes (I was
accessing the Syjet when the system went west without any logged
messages in the syslogs), but for the most part they work O.K. I've
been able to compile all of XFree86-3.3 on a Syjet.
Sep 10 14:25:12 altair kernel: scsi0 : BusLogic BT-950
Sep 10 14:25:12 altair kernel: scsi : 1 host.
...
Sep 10 14:25:12 altair kernel: Vendor: SyQuest Model: SyJet-S Rev: 0092
Sep 10 14:25:12 altair kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Sep 10 14:25:12 altair kernel: Detected scsi removable disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
Things might be working better in 2.0.31pre. I haven't had a
Syquest-related crash in awhile, but I've been pushing it less hard
also.
