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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!ukma!news1.gsfc.nasa.gov!cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov!dc From: dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Cottingham) Subject: What does this Adaptec 1542B error mean? Message-ID: <C52xL5.Es2@skates.gsfc.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@skates.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD USA Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 20:43:50 GMT Lines: 15 Here's a question for someone who has better manuals on the Adaptec 1542B than I have. I just hooked up a borrowed tape drive to my Adaptec. It seems to attach ok but when I try to read or write it, I get a console error message along the lines of "controller error 0x12". If anyone can tell me what those bits mean it might help me diagnose the problem. BTW, it attaches the first time I try to read/write it, *not* during boot. Is this normal behavior for tape drives? Please respond via email. Thanks, Dave Cottingham dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov