On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 06:29:33PM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I am running 4.7 and using an adaptec 2940 PCI card. > I have a HP external scsi tape drive. > > While this all works, I noticed the following: > > Unless the tape drive is connected to the scsi bus > and TURNED on, when I boot the machine it will not allow > me to later use any tape commands. It returns "device not configured". > Yes for most tape drives. > Is this normal? > > I thought that I would be able to simply connect up the tape drive and > power it up whenever I wanted and leave it off and disconnected when not in > use. The particular card and device has to be designed to hot swapable. Not recommened for tape drives. They are so flaky unless initialized on boot up. > J.D. Bronson > Aurora Health Care // Information Systems // Milwaukee, WI USA > Office: 414.978.8282 // Fax: 414.328.8282 // Pager: 414.603.8282 >
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