I didn't see anything about an inquiry ID.
See other info below...
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Tim Jones wrote:
>
> What kernel are you running?
2.0.36
>
> What is the induiry ID returned by the drive during the boot sequence
> (see your /var/messages file)?
>
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: hdb: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:282, ATAPI CDROM
drive
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: hdc: WDC AC313000R, 12416MB w/512kB
Cache, CHS=25228/16/63
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: hdd: HP COLORADO 8GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: scsi : detected total.
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: Partition check:
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: hda: hda1 hda2
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: ide-tape: hdd: overriding
capabilities->speed (assuming 650KB/sec)
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: ide-tape: hdd: overriding
capabilities->max_speed (assuming 650KB/sec)
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0, 650KBps, 16*32kB
buffer, 3200kB pipeline, 250ms tDSC
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: hdc: hdc1 hdc2
Feb 23 10:39:17 c46389-a kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
readonly.
Fe
> Are you using the ide-tape drivers, or the ide-scsi SCSI emulation
> drivers?
>
ide-tape
> Have you tried retensioning the tape (mt -f /dev/ht0 reten)?
>
no but I will :)
> We have 2 of these internal drives, 1 parallel port and even one of the
> 5GB drives and see no problems with any of them.
>
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