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Re: Dec Alpha and DAT tape drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Noxon)
Thu Sep 3 16:06:17 1998
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 14:48:48 -0500
From: Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>
To: michael@amintech.com, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199809031907.OAA04819@mydot.com>; from Michael Wilhelm on Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 02:01:03PM -0500
I don't think the Advansys driver has been tested on Alpha. I haven't
tried mine yet. But if the driver is 64-bit clean, it should work...
You will have to build a new kernel that supports it. With luck, it will
be detected as your *second* controller. I plugged an Adaptec 3940W into
my Alpha, and the onboard NCR gets detected as the *third* controller...
It works (but only with newer kernels), and I had to change my fstab
file to put the root filesystem on the other drive...
Good luck
Jeff
On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 02:01:03PM -0500, Michael Wilhelm wrote:
> I have a dec Alpha and it has a ncr53c8xx scsi card in it I have
> several devices on it: 7 disk disk charger, zip drive , old syquest
> drive, 3.2 gig hd, 4.1gig hd, now the 4.1 gig does not support
> desconects and from my understanding is that this controller you
> can only turn on or off desconects on all device but not on a single
> device. I have purchased a Archives DAT drive and when I backup
> my drive (tar cvf /dev/st0 /usr .....) it backs up fine but during a
> rewind my kernel opps and it corrupts the drive that was just
> backed up. So i decided I should not have the drive rewind the tape
> so i used nst0 for my backups (tar cvf /dev/nst0 /usr ....) and I get
> the same problem... so I decided that I would go out and buy a new
> scsi controller and place it on the dec. I got a advance sys
> controller with no BIOS. now my problem is how do I get my kernel
> to see two controllers or how do I get my dat drive to work with the
> ncr controller
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