problems with tape drive

Dana Holland dana.holland at navarrocollege.edu
Thu Feb 1 15:56:27 UTC 2007


Got it fixed.  We checked to make it was plugged in and that the card 
was seated properly.  While we didn't see anything wrong there, 
apparently there was, because when we rebooted it all works.

David Tonhofer wrote:
> Dana Holland wrote:
>> Here is the result of the script:
>>
>> [root at mail ~]# ./scan_scsi_bus.sh
>> Host adapter 0 (aic7xxx) found.
>> Host adapter 1 (aic7xxx) found.
>> 0 new device(s) found.
>> 0 device(s) removed.
>>
> That sounds as if the tape drive were not switched on or not correctly 
> connected.
> Check cabling? Bent pins? (No joke, took me a couple of weeks to find a 
> partially
> broken PIN).
> 
> Any messages in the kernel log?
> 
> Here is my output:
> 
> [root at greyhound ~]#  ./scan_scsi_bus.sh
> Host adapter 0 (aic7xxx) found.
> Scanning for device 0 0 5 0 ...
> OLD: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
>      Vendor: BNCHMARK Model: DLT1             Rev: 5E40
>      Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> 0 new device(s) found.
> 0 device(s) removed.
> 
> 




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