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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need help with Archive Viper
Date: 6 Sep 1995 11:01:31 +0200
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Keith A. Tomkins <ktomkins> wrote:
^^^^^^^^
Please, configure your News software.
>I have an Archive Viper 2150 tape drive. I am running it on an Adaptec 1542CF
>SCSI card. The drive is set to be SCSI device 2. When I try to use GNU tar,
>it gives me all kinds of errors. Any hints or ideas?
"Archive Viper is a known rogue."
Means, that there are special hooks in the kernel to cope with the old
(SCSI-1) Vipers. Either, use it in old mode (i didn't even know
they're delivered as SCSI-2 now), or remove the workaround in the
kernel.
Please, send us the _exact_ inquiry message of the drive (it's printed
at boot time when the drive is found, you can retrieve it later with
/sbin/dmesg).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)