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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!arclight.uoregon.edu!pith.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need help adding SCSI tape drive Date: 21 Dec 1996 07:56:50 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <59g582$86e@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <5970fu$8u5@newshost.lanl.gov> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva3.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32928 In <5970fu$8u5@newshost.lanl.gov>, crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby) writes: >I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.5 from the Walnut Creek CDROM. > >I just bought a used SCSI tape drive. I could only afford the >least costly: > >Archive/Conner/Seagate 2150S >HH-Internal-SCSI Tape 150/300Mg, 1 New 6150 Tape Included. > > One very annoying thing about the Archive drives is that their SCSI connectors are reversed from other connectors, ie pin one is on the left hand side instead of the right hand side. If your SCSI cable is not keyed, it is possible to plug it in backwards, which can sometimes blow the fusable resistor. Whenever I've set these drives up I've always had to custom build a SCSI cable with weird twists in it to get the connectors to key properly.