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From: pigdog@netcom.com (Pigdog from SF Bay)
Subject: FreeBSD and HP DAT Driv(35480A) incompatible?
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 18:45:56 GMT
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HI, everyone. I have an HP 4-8 gig DAT drive model # HP35480A and
am having some problems getting FreeBSD to recognize the drive. During
a cold boot, my Adaptec 2940UW sees the drive on the daisy chain and
then loads the cards bios just fine. Then BSD boots and after it settles
the scsi devices it tries to detect them...it detects my 2 gig IBM
drive just fine, but then hangs immediately after that and the activity
light on the Adaptec controller stays lit up as if the SCSI bus had locked.
If I let it wait long enough it will time out with errors and then reboot the
system..
I've tried every possible combination of termination, so I don't think
that is the problem (ie. Different termination settings on the controller
from with it's setup, because my tape drive is external).
Does anyone know why this tape drive wouldn't working? I've also heard
from a lot of people that the 2940UW controller seems to have problems
with BSD 2.1.5.
(Btw - this tape drive works fine on the same machine if I boot to a DOS
partition.)
Thanks, everyone! Have a good one!
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