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Re: Exabyte 8200

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D. Chiodo)
Fri Nov 22 19:34:29 1996

Date: 	Fri, 22 Nov 1996 19:30:36 -0500 (EST)
From: "D. Chiodo" <djc@microwave.com>
To: inaninck@koha.koha.nl
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199611220937.KAA29930@bentley.getronics.nl>




Recompile kernel and enable SCSI tape support?


On Fri, 22 Nov 1996 inaninck@koha.koha.nl wrote:

> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:37:15 +0100
> From: inaninck@koha.koha.nl
> To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Exabyte 8200
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> In my system I have a TMC8xx Future Domain SCSI-controller with a Seagate
> ST41650 1.3GB disk and an Exabyte 8200 8mm drive connected to it.
> When I reboot my 2.0.25 ELF system, the harddisk is detected (dmesg) 
> but I see nothing about the Exabyte. I pass 'tmc8xx=0xca000,5' to the kernel,
> which are the correct params.
> A 'tar' to /dev/st0 or st1 responds: no such device.
> In /dev there exists the st0 and 1 devices with the correct major an minor
> numbers i.e. maj=9 min= resp. 0 and 1. 'Owner' of st0/1 is 'root', 'group' is
> 'disk', is that correct?
> SCSI-id of the disk =0, the Exabyte is 1.
> Anyone with a bright idea out there to get my 8mm to spin for me?
> 
> 
> Vriendelijke groeten/Best regards, 
> 
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