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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbreeder.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.apfel.de!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!usenet From: "Andrew" <Andrew@mvt.ie> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Wanted: help with SCSI tape setup Date: 19 Feb 1997 17:04:17 GMT Organization: EUnet Ireland customer Lines: 30 Message-ID: <01bc1e87$0e4fa490$c8dc78c1@zombie> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.120.220.200 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:2556 Hi, I am trying to get a SCSI tape drive set up in BSDI v. 2.1, with no great luck. The tape drive is installed on an adaptec aha 1540cf/1542cf controller as SCSI device #3, and it seems to get picked up correctly at startup dmesg gives; .... aha0 at isa0 iobase 0x330 irq 11 drq 5 : Adaptec AHA-1540CF/1542CF rev E0 delaying for SCSI bus reset and device self tests aha0: parity, bus transfer 5Mb/s bus on/off 11/4 us tg0 at aha0 target 3 st0 at tg0 unit 0: ARCHIVE Python 28388-XXX rev 5.AC (SCSI-2) DDS2 cassette streaming (512) tg0: .... I did a MAKEDEV, and the files which should correspond to the tape drive (rst0, nrst0, rst0_ddf, nrst0_ddf, etc.) were created, but when I tried using mt -f <tape device name> status to get details of the drive, I get a message back saying; 0: unknown tape drive type This happens no matter which device name I use. What I want to know is if anyone else has had similar experience, or can point out what I am doing wrong. Andrew