On Monday 20 February 2006 18:47, Marcus Barczak wrote: >Just recently acquired a cast off Sun DDS3 SCSI tape drive. It's an > external unit and connected to my internal Adaptec 2940UW controller. > The problem i'm experiencing is anytime I try issuing a command with > mt for instance:
I have an Adaptec 2940UW that i'm using at home, so i'm familiar with the hardware. That card has 3 places for SCSI cables to connect: 2 internal, and 1 external. However, you can only have devices plugged into two connections at a time (there was a more expensive version of the card which did not have this limitation). By any chance were you already using both internal ports before plugging the tape drive into the external? This is where a full dmesg would have been more helpful. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake University Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave +1 515 271-4540 Des Moines IA 50311 USA
