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Seagate TR-4 Tape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bob jones)
Thu Nov 5 23:13:56 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 20:17:04 -0800
From: bob jones <bobj@eskimo.com>
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Thanks to whomever answers this.
I have 3 IDE devices: hard drive, cdrom, and a Seagate TR-4 tape drive,
on a PII running Linux, with a small W98 partition.
This a new system. Everything worked fine for a couple of months. Then
the cdrom quit working: couldn't detect a cd in the drive. The Linux
diagnostic is that Linux doesn't recognize /dev/hdc as a block device.
But xplaycd is more clear: it says there is no cd in the drive. Also,
the command "dmesg | more", which I learned by reading the redhat-list
postings (thank you redhat-list) doesn't show the cdrom detected.
A little checking showed that W98 also doesn't recognize a cd in the
drive.
A hardware problem, so I took the box back to the !local! dealer where I
bought it. The result? The problem is the Seagate tape drive!!! With it
removed from the system the cdrom works just fine. With it in the system
the cdrom won't work. I watched the tech show that conclusion, and I
still can't believe it. The tech says that can happen with IDE
controllers.
Now for my question. I have to get Seagate to send me a replacement
drive. Reasoning that if one fails another might fail too, I'm tempted
to ask Seagate to send me a SCSI TR-4 drive (extra $, I'm sure). I'm
suspicious about the IDE conflict between the tape drive and the cdrom
drive. Maybe it would be better if the IDE controller didn't have to
deal with the tape drive. So here is my question: what SCSI controllers
for the TR-4 would be compatible with RHL5.1? Does anyone out there have
a Seagate (or HP) TR-4 SCSI drive with a controller that works with
RHL5.1?
Again, thanks,
bob jones (bobj@eskimo.com)
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