On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:59, C. Chan wrote: >Also Sprach cwhite: >> i need a little help with my new tape drive >> >> i used to have an internal travan tape drive, scsi, which showed >> up as /dev/st0, i recently aquired an external dds3 drive, sony >> sdt-9000, so i took my internal drive out of the system and >> plugged the dds drive into it >> >> when linux boot's there is no problem finding the drive, it show >> up between my hard drives >> >> the first hard drive is id 0, /dev/sda >> 2nd hard drive is id 2, /dev/sdb >> 3rd hard drive is id 4, /dev/sdc >> sony sdt tape drive is id 6, no device is given here >> 4th hard drive is id 10, /dev/sdd >> >> i am running redhat 7.0 with kernel 2.2.16 > >I'd upgrade the distribution since Redhat 7.0 is notoriously > buggy. At the very least make sure your kernel has the patch to > fix the POSIX capabilities hole. > >> any help or pointer as to where i can find a solution to my >> problem would be greatly appreciated >> >> thx > >The SDT9000 is a narrow device, I noticed that you have it on a > wide bus. Is it the last device in the chain and are the 18 pins > properly terminated?
Gaaccckk! I missed that id=10 that was the trigger for a wide buss presence. Glad you caught that. In this case it would have to have the top half of the data buss terminated at the adaptor that brings the cable width down to a 50 pin plug or the whole buss may go away in an errant write, possibly taking the drive addressed at the time with it in terms of file system integrity. Some cards are switchable in that regard, so it may be possible to share a rear panel hidens 50 with an internal 68 pin by turning on the internal terms only for the top half of the buss. I'd certainly investigate it in any event as its cheaper than all those terms and adaptors. >Also check the drive jumpers, sometimes you need to fiddle with > them depending on the SCSI bus and OS. > >---- >C. Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Public Key registered at > pgp.mit.edu "Your Pithy Aphorism Here!" Or finger > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.04% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
