SCSI tape drive with Adaptec adapter...

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 22:21, C. Linus Hicks wrote:
> 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?
> -- 
> C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc.rr.com>
> 
duh Oh!

He said he only has one scsi device.  All the others he mentioned are
USB (scsi emulation) and do not use the scsi adapter.