Strange SCSI tape problem.

[Tony Nelson]

At 3:15 PM -0500 8/7/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

>I have an unusual problem with a SCSI tape drive. It is an old DAT 2
>drive. It works with a RH 7.3 system, but with the same controller,
>it does not work when used with FC-6 or F7. But the strange things
>is that it will work with a USB to SCSI adapter. What happens is
>that I get a tape I/O error from the drive when I put in a tape. I
>suspect that when the drive is initialized when connected to the PCI
>SCSI card, the drive is put in a mode where it will not detect the
>proper block size of the tape.
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FWIW, there is a recent thread on dump-users that may be the same sort of
issue.

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