[98551] in RedHat Linux List
Partial success with SCSI tape drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Fox)
Mon Nov 9 17:43:43 1998
From: "David E. Fox" <dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:22:13 -0800
Cc: dledford@redhat.com
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OK. Referring to my previous messages to the list regarding my
problems with my Adaptec 2920C and the HP 5000i DAT drive
I recently installed ---
It is working relatively OK now. I wrote before that I have had problems
getting the 2.0.35 kernel with the AIC 7xxx driver to work fully. It will
recognize the drive (on lun#3) and permit writing/reading, but interferes
with X. Accelerated X will not start, saying "unable to connect to socket".
Furthermore, SuperProbe segfaults. This is with Redhat 5.0, BTW.
I don't see any reason why the kernel would interfere with the X
subsystem, but it seems to. As a test, I recompiled the kernel with SCSI
support as a module, and it still kept X from starting up correctly.
However, I am able to start X with the 2.0.35 kernel from redhat, but the
module for AIC7xxx support doesn't detect the tape drive properly.
So -- my workaround --- replace the module I compiled (patched with 5.1.2 of
Doug Ledford's aic7xxx driver) for the ones that Redhat provides, and now
it works. :)
Oh, and by the way, I had been backing up with tar, but I'm trying out Arkeia,
which does look very nice. (http://www.arkeia.com). It seems to be faster
than xbru too.
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