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Re: Seagate TR-4 Tape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Fri Nov 6 00:44:23 1998
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 19:42:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Ray Curtis <ray@ray.clark.net>
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In-Reply-To: <36427840.EC076A6B@eskimo.com>
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>>>>> "bj" == bob jones <bobj@eskimo.com> writes:
bj> Thanks to whomever answers this.
bj> I have 3 IDE devices: hard drive, cdrom, and a Seagate TR-4 tape drive,
bj> on a PII running Linux, with a small W98 partition.
bj> This a new system. Everything worked fine for a couple of months. Then
bj> the cdrom quit working: couldn't detect a cd in the drive. The Linux
bj> diagnostic is that Linux doesn't recognize /dev/hdc as a block device.
bj> But xplaycd is more clear: it says there is no cd in the drive. Also,
bj> the command "dmesg | more", which I learned by reading the redhat-list
bj> postings (thank you redhat-list) doesn't show the cdrom detected.
bj> A little checking showed that W98 also doesn't recognize a cd in the
bj> drive.
bj> A hardware problem, so I took the box back to the !local! dealer where I
bj> bought it. The result? The problem is the Seagate tape drive!!! With it
bj> removed from the system the cdrom works just fine. With it in the system
bj> the cdrom won't work. I watched the tech show that conclusion, and I
bj> still can't believe it. The tech says that can happen with IDE
bj> controllers.
bj> Now for my question. I have to get Seagate to send me a replacement
bj> drive. Reasoning that if one fails another might fail too, I'm tempted
bj> to ask Seagate to send me a SCSI TR-4 drive (extra $, I'm sure). I'm
bj> suspicious about the IDE conflict between the tape drive and the cdrom
bj> drive. Maybe it would be better if the IDE controller didn't have to
bj> deal with the tape drive. So here is my question: what SCSI controllers
bj> for the TR-4 would be compatible with RHL5.1? Does anyone out there have
bj> a Seagate (or HP) TR-4 SCSI drive with a controller that works with
bj> RHL5.1?
How about just a seperate IDE controller for the tape drive ? I'm not
sure this will solve your problem since I have always used scsi for
tape drives but it is certainly a lot cheaper method if it works.
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Ray Curtis Consultant/Programmer Curtis Consulting
mailto:ray@ray.clark.net http://www.clark.net/pub/ray
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