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RE: Seagate TR-4 Tape Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Soffen, Matthew)
Fri Nov 6 13:06:42 1998
From: "Soffen, Matthew" <msoffen@iso-ne.com>
To: Redhat list <redhat-list@redhat.com>,
Victoria Stanfield <vicki@stanfield.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:07:40 -0500
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It isn't a problem with the 2 devices both being configured as masters ?
Have you verified this ?
Have you tried to swap which EIDE controller the devices are on (ie. HD
+ Tape, CD
or HD + CD, Tape) ?
Matthew Soffen - Webmaster http://www.iso-ne.com/
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> From: Victoria Stanfield[SMTP:vicki@stanfield.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 1998 12:19 PM
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> Subject: Re: Seagate TR-4 Tape Drive
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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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