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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 12:49:37 -0800 (PST)
From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org>
Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: kern/2698: scsi tape driver problem
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On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Peter Mutsaers wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR kern/2698; it has been noted by GNATS.
>  
>  My tapedrive is not broken. It works without such problems on Linux
>  and NT4.0. (Maybe because Linux doesn't treat it as a raw device?)
>  
>  It is a DEC TZK:
>  
>  st0 at scbus0 target 2 lun 0
>  st0: <DEC TZK10 00B3> type 1 removable SCSI 2
>  st0: Sequential-Access 
>  st0: asynchronous.
>  density code 0x0,  drive empty
>  
>  This is exactly the same as a Wangtek 525MB drive, I think the Wangtek
>  5525 ES.
>  
>  Could/should I tell the driver that it is a Wangtek? The handbook
>  says:
>  
>  This drives quirks are known and pre-compiled into the scsi tape device driver
>  (st(4)).

modify /usr/src/sys/scsi/scsiconf.c so that an entry like the "WANGTEK",
"5525ES*"

but have it be something like:
{
	..., ..., ..., "DEC", "TZK10", "00B3",
	...
}

then recompile your kernel and see what happens...  hope this works...
ttyl..

John-Mark

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