From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 8:14:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6EF337B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:14:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ciclon.wixb.com (mke-65-26-194-41.wi.rr.com [65.26.194.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AE2443E42 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:14:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jspinnow@wixb.com) Received: from ciclon.wixb.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ciclon.wixb.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9NFEheH002597; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:14:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jspinnow@localhost) by ciclon.wixb.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9NFEgLB002596; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:14:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:14:42 -0500 From: John Pinnow To: "J.D. Bronson" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scsi external tape Message-ID: <20021023151442.GA2581@ciclon.wixb.com> References: <5.2.0.5.2.20021021182606.00b2ae40@molson.wixb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.5.2.20021021182606.00b2ae40@molson.wixb.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 06:29:33PM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I am running 4.7 and using an adaptec 2940 PCI card. > I have a HP external scsi tape drive. > > While this all works, I noticed the following: > > Unless the tape drive is connected to the scsi bus > and TURNED on, when I boot the machine it will not allow > me to later use any tape commands. It returns "device not configured". > Yes for most tape drives. > Is this normal? > > I thought that I would be able to simply connect up the tape drive and > power it up whenever I wanted and leave it off and disconnected when not in > use. The particular card and device has to be designed to hot swapable. Not recommened for tape drives. They are so flaky unless initialized on boot up. > J.D. Bronson > Aurora Health Care // Information Systems // Milwaukee, WI USA > Office: 414.978.8282 // Fax: 414.328.8282 // Pager: 414.603.8282 > -- John Stewart Pinnow jspinnow@wixb.com Philosopher, Progammer, Analyst To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message