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Re: Seagate TR-4 Tape Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victoria Stanfield)
Fri Nov 6 11:18:27 1998
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 11:19:16 -0600 (EST)
From: Victoria Stanfield <vicki@stanfield.net>
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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)
I have a Seagate TR-4 SCSI, and I love it. I run it off a cheap Adaptec
card (1520???). I only paid about $146 for the drive off some site that
had picked up some surplus drives. Very cool deal. One tip, the tape
which came with it was bad, and made the drive look like it was bad.
After I got a good tape, no problems.
Have a good day!
- -Vicki
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