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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1522 / 1542 DAT tape problems.
Date: 28 Jul 1996 07:57:28 GMT
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nichols@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Stewart Nichols) wrote:

> Certain DAT tape drives work with the Adaptec 1542cf, but
> not with the 1522A.

> Can someone tell me whether the problem is with the AIC
> driver, or is it some inherent problem with the 1522A
> host adapter???

The aic driver is basically `orphaned'.  Nobody has done any work on
it for a long time, and none of the active developers seems to
suff^H^H^H^Hhave an AIC-6260 based SCSI adapter.  It looks as if this
driver has been obtained from NetBSD once, so you might perhaps try to
get a newer version from NetBSD, and see whether you can get it going.
(Let us know when you succeeded!)

-- 
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. ;-)