SCSI tape drive with Adaptec adapter...
C. Linus Hicks
lhicks at nc.rr.com
Tue Aug 31 03:21:42 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 22:37, Gregory Gulik wrote:
> C. Linus Hicks wrote:
> > It doesn't look like an issue since the driver is detecting the transfer
> > rate of 5mb/s, but you could try setting that rate in the SCSI adapter
> > for that SCSI ID. Also, you might want to see if you can get this tape
> > drive working on another system.
>
> I tried setting the transfer rate to 5mb/s in the BIOS. No dice.
> However I did notice the following error in dmesg after I tried to
> access the device with mt:
>
> st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B), max page reachable by HBA
> 1048575
I don't think that is an error. I have seen it in every log listing you
have posted.
> > For someone who avoids SCSI, you sure do have a lot of SCSI controllers
> > in this machine.
>
> The only real device is this Adaptec card. The rest are a 6-in-1 USB
> card reader and a large IDE drive in a USB enclosure as a backup device.
Ah! So do you have any other SCSI devices you can test on this card to
verify that it works?
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C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc.rr.com>
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