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From: debra@wsinis07.info.win.tue.nl (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: NetBSD 1542B and Emulex MD21 + MT03
Date: 7 Oct 1993 16:16:51 +0100
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
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In article <28rian$f6v@sun.koblenz.fh-rpl.de>,
Juergen Marenda <marenda@newshost.koblenz.fh-rpl.de> wrote:
>My current Problem with NetBSD0.8 and 0.9 is :
>
>They do not work with a (real old) streamer , consistig of a drive
>and an emulex mt03. It did work on and sun-3 with sunos-4.0.3 and
>it works also with a dg av200d running dgux-4.3.1 .

the problem with the emulex controller is that it does not answer
to a request for identification. some versions of Unix don't like that.
Esix for instance doesn't recognize such a setup as being a scsi tape drive,
Solaris x86 does, and supposedly Linux can be made to work with it too.
what is needed is a patch to NetBSD to make it assume that the unknown
device is a tape drive.

Paul.
(debra@win.tue.nl)