On Tue, 11 May 1999, Brian Geisel wrote:
> > IS the AIT Sidewinder simply not supported under Linux, or does this
> > sound like a broken tape drive?
> >
> > thornton
>
> While I don't know why it wouldn't be, I cannot say it is definitely
> supported... however --
>From the responses I'm getting, it sounds like the Sidewinder works well
with Linux, just not mine.
>
> How long is your cable? We had trouble with a couple of changers when we
> had too many devices on the chain, or just simply too long of a cable. Can
> you use a shorter cable, or try running this as the only external device?
Cable is the one thing I didn't think of. Thanks, I'll try that next.
> Any chance you've done anything w/ this on any other OSs?
Are there OSs other than Linux? <grin> I am about to try it on an evil NT
machine (or rather a dual boot machine ... but after failure on two Linux
machines, the signs are pointing elsewhere.
> Does the device
> show up in `cat /proc/scsi/scsi` and does the card display a BIOS message
> that it recognized the drive as existing (I'm not familiar w/ your SCSI
> card)?
It does appear in /proc/scsi/scsi fine.
> The other machine had a little different behavior, was it a
> different kernel, or was the cable longer/shorter / different # of
>devices?
The other machine was a different SCSI card, and was the only device on
the external chain (but there was an internal SCSI DAT drive).
> I know I basically just asked a lot of questions, but maybe one of them
> will help? <G> Or maybe one of your answers will spark something with
> someone else on the list... The final option I see is wasting my time
> because someone else who knows the tape drive informs us that it's
> unsupported :)
I guess I'm close to returning the drive for another after trying a
another cable.
Thanks to you and all the others who responded. I'm pretty confident my
software is OK, and if it isn't a cable problem, it has to be a problem
with the drive itself.
thornton
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