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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sun4nl!philapd!apdnews!spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl!wilko From: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problem with 60MB Archive tape drive & AHA 1542A Message-ID: <wilko.743710621@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: 26 Jul 93 18:17:01 GMT References: <22oqpc$7o3@manuel.anu.edu.au> Sender: news@idca.tds.philips.nl Lines: 26 mbl900@anusf.anu.edu.au (Mathew BM LIM) writes: >I have a 60mb Archive QIC-24 drive from an old Sun386i. This drive >consists of a transport mechanism and an add on Emulex MT02 (?) board >that turns it into a SCSI device. >I can use this drive perfectly on a Sun but can't seem to get the AHA 1542A >to even recognise it's existance. Upon boot up, the drive does make >rewinding noises when the AHA probes the SCSI, but no device is reported. >No tape deviec is found during 386bsd boot up either. >Any clues? My guess is that the MT02 board does not respond to an Inquiry command or doesnot respond in a sensible way. This probably makes the driver believe there is nothing on that particular SCSI ID. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte mail: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| Equipment Corporation voice: +3155-432062 fax: +3155-432103 DTN: 829 2062 PO Box 245 - 7300 AE Apeldoorn - The Netherlands