[6503] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Seagate AIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Geisel)
Tue May 11 21:36:47 1999
From: Brian Geisel <briang@microlite.com>
To: Thornton Prime <thornton@cnation.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:35:13 -0400
> IS the AIT Sidewinder simply not supported under Linux, or does this
> sound like a broken tape drive?
>
> thornton
While I don't know why it wouldn't be, I cannot say it is definitely
supported... however --
How long is your cable? We had trouble with a couple of changers when we
had too many devices on the chain, or just simply too long of a cable. Can
you use a shorter cable, or try running this as the only external device?
Any chance you've done anything w/ this on any other OSs? Does the device
show up in `cat /proc/scsi/scsi` and does the card display a BIOS message
that it recognized the drive as existing (I'm not familiar w/ your SCSI
card)? The other machine had a little different behavior, was it a
different kernel, or was the cable longer/shorter / different # of devices?
I know I basically just asked a lot of questions, but maybe one of them
will help? <G> Or maybe one of your answers will spark something with
someone else on the list... The final option I see is wasting my time
because someone else who knows the tape drive informs us that it's
unsupported :)
geisel
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