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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!moocow.cs.uh.edu!wjin From: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] ST01 SCSI controller + tape driver Date: 14 Aug 1994 06:51:58 GMT Organization: University of Houston Lines: 43 Message-ID: <32keue$1mv@masala.cc.uh.edu> References: <31odnb$fg3@masala.cc.uh.edu> <MYCROFT.94Aug6072750@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <320ijgINNo4r@uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: moocow.cs.uh.edu In article <320ijgINNo4r@uwm.edu>, Robert Knier <knier@miller.cs.uwm.edu> wrote: > > The current st01/st02/fd950 driver is work well on my machine. I have >a maxtor 340s and nec 3xi cdrom drive. When Kent Palmquist wrote it and I >optimized it, we found that the resulting throughput was quite good. If I >recall correctly, it was faster than my IDE drive! I tried st01 with Wangtek SCSI drive (QIC) with FreeBSD 1.0, but it didn't work at that time. I didn't connect HD, st01 was for the tape drive only. First, it had boot problem. I don't remember correctly, since it was some time ago, but I'll try my best in describing the problem. 1) Without any connection (no tape drive) to the ST01 controller, FreeBSD 1.0 correctly recognized the controller and booted 2) I attached the Wangtek QIC SCSI tape drive with SCSI Terminator. It wouldn't boot. It was stuck just after it recognized the controller. 3) Same as the above, but I started without the SCSI terminator. Just after the system recognized the ST01 controller, I attached the SCSI terminator. Then the system boot went on reporting the Wangtek Drive. However, I couldn't make it work (i/o error or something like that). It seemed to me at that time that FreeBSD's ST01/2 driver required ID 0 device, which is HD. The tape drive's ID was set to 5 (if my memory is correct). I wonder whether FreeBSD 1.1.5 fixed this problem. (I don't have the Wangtek drive any longer. It was my friend's.) Thanks. >Bob Knier -- Woody Jin