From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 27 16:39:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26301 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:39:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bogslab.ucdavis.edu (root@bogslab.ucdavis.edu [128.120.162.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26287 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:38:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu) Received: from myrtle1.bogs.org (root@myrtle1.bogs.org [198.137.203.39]) by bogslab.ucdavis.edu (8.7.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA21402 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:38:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from myrtle1.bogs.org (greg@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by myrtle1.bogs.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA24988 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:37:11 -0800 Message-Id: <199803280037.QAA24988@myrtle1.bogs.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tapes In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:03:52 PST." <351C2248.751A@lombard.com> Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:36:47 -0800 From: Greg Shenaut Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <351C2248.751A@lombard.com>, Marcus Zafarano cleopede: >I have read the manual on configuring scsi tapes or tapes in general, >but my system still won't recognize my 4mm scsi tape unit. > >Can anyone give a step by step blow on how to configure one? I recently went through this with my TEAC MT2-ST scsi tape drive. To get it to work, I had to add some stuff to the driver's database of quirks--the drive didn't support some of the commands the driver tried to use to identify it. If you can't get it to work any other way, I wrote up a summary of what I had to do and posted it here--you can find it by searching the archives for "teac mt2-st". Although the exact things I had to fiddle to make my drive work probably won't work for you, it might help as a guide/starting point. It was necessary to go this route because the defaults for the "unknown drive" were all wrong for me, and there doesn't seem to be any way short of the quirks table to inform the driver about the drive. Please try other things first, of course. -Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message