Re: SCSI Tape troubles (2nd try)

1998-05-07 Thread Simon Liddington
Geoffrey Hunsicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some further research found that during boot I am getting the message "kernel: Unable to get major 9 for SCSI tapes." Some hunting around in the Kernel sources revealed that this message is coming out of the module drivers/scsi/st.c when the

Re: SCSI Tape troubles (2nd try)

1998-05-06 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Geoffrey Hunsicker wrote: On Tue, 5 May 1998, Eric L. Green wrote: No real advice except: check the SCSI ID on the tape drive (is it being detected by the OS at bootup?), check the termination (do you have a terminator installed on the end of this external SCSI bus?),

Re: SCSI Tape troubles (2nd try)

1998-05-05 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Geoffrey Hunsicker wrote: Hi all, I've not gotten any responses to the following. Does anyone have any pointers to information which might be useful? I've checked all of the usual sources and found nothing. No real advice except: check the SCSI ID on the tape drive

SCSI Tape troubles (2nd try)

1998-05-05 Thread Geoffrey Hunsicker
Hunsicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Geoffrey Hunsicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SCSI Tape troubles Hi all, I have recently acquired a SCSI card and a SCSI DAT tape drive and am having trouble getting them to play together. I am running a RedHat 4.2 system with the 2.0.32 kernel

Re: SCSI Tape troubles (2nd try)

1998-05-05 Thread Geoffrey Hunsicker
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Eric L. Green wrote: No real advice except: check the SCSI ID on the tape drive (is it being detected by the OS at bootup?), check the termination (do you have a terminator installed on the end of this external SCSI bus?), check to see whether you've used too many

SCSI Tape troubles

1998-05-03 Thread Geoffrey Hunsicker
Hi all, I have recently acquired a SCSI card and a SCSI DAT tape drive and am having trouble getting them to play together. I am running a RedHat 4.2 system with the 2.0.32 kernel upgrade. The SCSI card is a BusLogic BT958. The tape drive is a Seagate STD64000N 2/4GB external DAT drive. I