>---------- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 29 October 1998 15:17 >To: John Cumming >Subject: RE: problem - *OLD* Sun 1/4inch tape dri >On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, John Cumming wrote: > > >> >> >> ---------- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 29 October 1998 14:52 >> To: John Cumming >> Subject: RE: problem - *OLD* Sun 1/4inch tape dri >> >> >1) The tape drive is not 100% SCSI and so Linux wont find it. I remember >> a >> > couple of tape drives that were like this. >> >> Really can't say about that one - probe-scsi at the prom (promerty prom) >> prompt returns detail about it. > >These may be 2 different calls on the scsi bus.... but I could be >wrong. Dave Miller and such would be the authoritative on it. > > >> >> >2) The tape drive has some mechanical fault that is causing it not to >> > report back on the probe. >> >> Again as above... >> >> >3) Sometimes, back in my sunos days, I would have problems with scsi >> > tape drives that were on the end of the scsi bus. Moving them to the >> > middle of the bus and putting an active terminator on the end of the >> > scsi bus would magically fix the problem. >> >> Ahh!!! - This _could_ be it, it is at the end of the scsi bus - I'll go >> home and try...... > > >I hope this does it. >
Nope! - Well I have another solution to my problem, not _entirely_ satisfactory, but it will have to do. To save the hassle of possible different tape formats, I'll be backing everything up from SunOS using a dos formatted partition on one of my drives as a point to exchange files between the two systems (which was why I wanted the tape drive in the first place, come to think of it!) If only I could mount ufs read-write.... I'll use mtools to create a dos fs on the partition and mount -t psfs /dev/???? in SunOS. PROBLEM SOLVED.................well partially at least... I HOPE this works. John
