>The log entries would reference the st driver and/or the SCSI interface >driver (aic7xxx). You might wnat to check the other logs in /var/log >or run dmesg to see if it is still in the kernel's log buffer. > If the tape drive is the only device on that SCSI chain you can safely >cycle power on the tape drive without rebooting the machine. Don't do it >if there is a disk on the same interface or you might corrupt your disk >(and read the manual, since some controllers have internal and external >connectors for the same interface). If all else fails, power it all off >and start over (generally the power-off sequence is from the controller >out, and power-on is from the last device in). > Since the tape device worked for a short while, I would suspect problems >with SCSI termination (either doubly terminated, or not at all).
Hm.. that would make sense. I'll have to go read up on that and make sure that I know what I'm doing when it comes to SCSI termination. Probably don't... I appreciate your help Frank. JSR/
