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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.De!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: APS HyperQIC SCSI Tape drives Date: 20 Feb 1996 00:55:41 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4gb66d$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4g10oh$345e@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 mccrobi@ibm.net writes: > I have an add for APS HyperQIC SCSI tape drive. Are ALL SCSI tape drives > supported under FreeBSD. I would assume so since their seems to be a SCSI > command set for tape drives. Any comments on the brand? Basically, all drives are supported. I would have said the above until 2 months ago, when trouble reports about the new Exabyte EXB-2501 series popped up. People usually get nothing but controller timeouts for the drive. I have learnt it the hard way (by supporting a FreeBSD ``customer'' via the Internet) that Exabyte didn't get it right to implement SCSI. Sigh. They simply don't answer a MODE SELECT command, no error, no response at all. Unless you happen to have a _formatted_ cartridge in the drive! About the most weird interpretation of SCSI i've seen so far. (For the EXB-2501 victims: scsi -f /dev/rst0 -s 600 -c "4 0 0 0 0 0" will format your cartridge. Don't try *any* mt(1) or other tape operation before!) Apart from this, most of the other SCSI tape drives seem to work fine. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)