Re: SCSI tape driver

Gary L. Hennigan (glhenni@cs.sandia.gov)
08 Aug 1998 08:55:06 -0600

Anthony DeStefano <destefano@usa.net> writes:
| On 7 Aug 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
| > Is your tape drive recognized by the kernel when you boot? Or are you
| > using a module for your 2940? If you compiled the 2940 support
| > directly into the kernel try "dmesg" and see if all the devices on
| > your SCSI bus are reported. Alternatively, whether the driver is
| > compiled as a module or directly into the kernel, you should be able
| > to find out what devices are recognized by doing a
| >
| > cat /proc/scsi/scsi
| >
| > My bet is that your tape drive isn't listed.
| >
|
| You're right! I can't believe I didn't look at that first. I just
| recogonize the Adaptec BIOS finding it boot and then didn't pay attention
| to the boot messages.
|
| I guess this is a good time for a self-LART.
|
| > I believe I remember seeing that same message when the aic7xxx driver
| > wasn't recognizing that I had a tape drive on the SCSI bus. I have the
| > aic7xxx driver compiled directly into my kernel and I could see (via
| > dmesg) that, on occasion, the driver wouldn't catch the tape drive,
| > and sometimes wouldn't catch the disks, as being on the SCSI
| > bus. There were problems with the driver not recognizing devices
| > intermittently. You might try the aic7xxx+pre5 (or maybe pre6 now)
| > patch to see if that fixes your problem. pre5 fixed mine and the
| > driver has yet to fail to recognize any devices on my 2940UW.
| >
|
| Thank you for the info and does anyone out there have more some info on
| this? At least my boot disk on the SCSI bus is found. BTW, the SCSI
| driver is compiled directly into the kernel and then i use the st module.
|
| Looks like this should go to the guys working on the AIC code next :)

You can give the AIC7xxx mailing list a shot. Request address is
Majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG with "subscribe aic7xxx" in the message body.

And don't forget the URL for the pre patches. Like I said, pre5 solved
my problem with devices not being recognized on my 2940UW.

ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/testing

Gary Hennigan

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