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From: Bill Beavers <bbeavers@Moonraker.afsc.k12.ar.us>
To: dkelly@hiwaay.net
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Subject: Re: tape drives 
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On Sat, 1 Nov 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote:
> 
> > ahc0:A:1: refuses syncronous negotiation. Using asyncronous transfers
> > (ahc0:1:0): "HP T4000s 1.07" type 1 removable SCSI 2 st0(ahc0:1:0):
> > Sequential-Access density code 0x0,  drive empty  
> 
> "asyncronous" is not the sign of a quality SCSI implementation. You 
> might have syncronous disabled in your 2940's BIOS for this device.

I checked the SCSI bios on the Adaptec card and every function is set to 
yes for syncronous negotiation, but the the device will still not do it.  
I checked the system bios and did not find any reference to allowing 
syncronous transfers or anything.  I don't exactly know where to look 
next to see if I can correct this.