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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!news.prd.nomura.co.uk!news-server From: Steve Gailey <steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need help adding SCSI tape drive Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 12:26:48 +0000 Organization: Metronome Solutions Ltd. Lines: 189 Message-ID: <32B7E308.3228@metrosol.demon.co.uk> References: <5970fu$8u5@newshost.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.201.66.79 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32741 If your adaptec utils don't find the tape drive then I am afraid that it either isn't working or it isn't connected to the SCSI bus correctly. Steve Charlie Sorsby wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.5 from the Walnut Creek CDROM. > > I just bought a used SCSI tape drive. I could only afford the > least costly: > > Archive/Conner/Seagate 2150S > HH-Internal-SCSI Tape 150/300Mg, 1 New 6150 Tape Included. > > According to the stickers it's the Archive. > > I have only two weeks to decide if the drive is OK and the clock > began yesterday... > > Naturally the first thing that I found is that the vendor from whom > I bought my system only included enough connectors on my SCSI cable > for the devices that I ordered so I had to scurry around to find a > cable. > > Now I find that my system doesn't seem to be finding the tape drive > when it boots. > > I couldn't find anything in the handbook or the faq about adding > a tape drive. > > Any suggestions about where to look and what to look for will be > much appreciated. > > The system is basically all SCSI. Disk and CDROM are working. > > I can't see the jumpers for the disk-drive but according to the > 2940 scsi utilities, it is SCSI ID 0. > > The CDROM drive is jumpered for SCSI ID 1. > > The tape drive came jumpered for SCSI ID 4 and I left it that way. > > The 2940 scsi utilities (I guess it's actually the Adaptec scsi > utilities) see only the disk drive, the CDROM drive, and the host > adapter (SCSI ID 7). > > The tape drive is not at the end of the cable and it has an empty > termination resistor socket above the SCSI connector. > > Trying tar to see if it's really there anyway: > > PC% tar tvf /dev/rst0 > tar: can't open /dev/rst0 : Device not configured > PC% > > Checking /dev: > > PC% ls /dev/*st* > /dev/erst0 /dev/nrst0 /dev/rst0 /dev/rst0.ctl /dev/st0ctl.3 > /dev/erst0.0 /dev/nrst0.0 /dev/rst0.0 /dev/sndstat /dev/stderr > /dev/erst0.1 /dev/nrst0.1 /dev/rst0.1 /dev/st0ctl.0 /dev/stdin > /dev/erst0.2 /dev/nrst0.2 /dev/rst0.2 /dev/st0ctl.1 /dev/stdout > /dev/erst0.3 /dev/nrst0.3 /dev/rst0.3 /dev/st0ctl.2 > PC% > > Of course some of those are unrelated files that happen to have > "st" in the filename. > > All of the files listed in the st man-page FILES section seem to be > there. > > Checking my kernel configuration file (eliminating obviously unrelated > "st"s as in "Filesystem": > ^^ > > PC% grep st KERNEL.CRS > options "SCSI_DELAY=15" #Be pessimistic about Joe SCSI device > device st0 > PC% > > Just to be sure, I'll look at that section and list what I find > that looks relevant. > > From KERNEL.CRS: > > controller ahc0 > [...] > controller scbus0 > [...] > device sd0 > > device st0 > > device cd0 #Only need one of these, the code dynamically grows > > Do I need to be more specific in the kernel configuration file > than above? As mentioned, disk and CDROM are working. > > [I'll append dmesg output at the end of this message. I apologize > for all of the "not found" messages in dmesg. I made only those > changes to my kernel configuration file that were needed earlier > and haven't had time to go back and clean it up by eliminating > stuff that I don't have. The "st0" line is as it came in the > GENERIC kernel configuration file.] > > I suppose that I could re-install FreeBSD (2.1.5) to see if that > finds the tape drive but I really hate to do that if I can avoid > it. > > Here's the output from dmesg: > > FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE #0: Tue Oct 29 16:56:58 MST 1996 > crs@quail.swcp.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL.CRS > CPU: 120-MHz Pentium 735\\90 or 815\\100 (Pentium-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x526 Stepping=6 > Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8> > real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) > avail memory = 14594048 (14252K bytes) > Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: > chip0 <Intel 82439> rev 1 on pci0:0 > chip1 <Intel 82371 PCI-ISA bridge> rev 1 on pci0:7:0 > chip2 <Intel 82371 Bus-Master IDE controller> rev 0 on pci0:7:1 > vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 0 int a irq ?? on pci0:10 > ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:12 > ahc0: aic7870 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs > ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle > (ahc0:0:0): "IBM DORS-32160 WA0A" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 2063MB (4226725 512 byte sectors) > (ahc0:1:0): "SONY CD-ROM CDU-76S 1.1c" type 5 removable SCSI 2 > cd0(ahc0:1:0): CD-ROM > cd0(ahc0:1:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 > cd0(ahc0:1:0): Not ready to ready transition, medium may have changed > cd present.[400000 x 2048 byte records] > Probing for devices on the ISA bus: > sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard > sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> > ed0 not found at 0x280 > ed1 not found at 0x300 > sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa > sio0: type 16550A > sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa > sio1: type 16550A > sio2: disabled, not probed. > sio3: disabled, not probed. > lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f on isa > lpt1 not found at 0xffffffff > psm0 at 0x60-0x63 irq 12 on motherboard > fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa > fdc0: NEC 72065B > fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in > wdc0 not found at 0x1f0 > bt0 not found at 0x330 > uha0 not found at 0x330 > aha0 not found at 0x330 > aic0 not found at 0x340 > nca0 not found at 0x1f88 > nca1 not found at 0x350 > sea0 not found > wt0 not found at 0x300 > mcd0: timeout getting status > mcd0 not found at 0x300 > matcdc0 not found at 0x230 > scd0 not found at 0x230 > ie0 not found at 0x360 > ep0 not found at 0x300 > ix0 not found at 0x300 > le0 not found at 0x300 > lnc0 not found at 0x280 > ze0 not found at 0x300 > zp0 not found at 0x300 > npx0 on motherboard > npx0: INT 16 interface > sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa > sb0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13> > sbxvi0 at 0x0 drq 5 on isa > sbxvo0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13> > sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa > <SoundBlaster MPU-401> > opl0 at 0x388 on isa > opl0: <Yamaha OPL-3 FM> > > Thanks for any help. > > -- > Best, > > Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby "I'm the NRA!" > crs@swcp.com crs@hamlet.lanl.gov Life Member since 1965