Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:42:21 -0400 From: "Carl Foote" <cfoote@bmyster.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: IDE tape drive stt3401a Message-ID: <20060415153418.M52372@bmyster.com>
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I just converted a windows server over to Freebsd 5.4 stable. The stt3401a tape drive that was in server was working fine. The tape drive posts in the BIOS but when freebsd boots up, it will not detect the drive. Documentation for the drive does state it cannot be on the same controller as a hard drive, which I verified. So, on its own controller (secondary) as master, the OS still will not detect the drive when system boots. I have tried all possibilities of appropiate jumper settings to no avail. The best I can get out of the drive is when the OS loads I get a "ata1-slave: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out". I get the message three times the os loads and no drive. I know freebsd is doing /dev differently than in the past. It loads /dev dynamically on boot, so it is not loaded with all the device files, just the ones it detects. Is there a way to force the dev file to load. ANY suggestions would be appreciated. Carl Foote, CCNA Bmyster, LLC Computer Networking and Webhosting Vice President, Network Engineer, Webmaster http://www.bmyster.com/ cfoote@bmyster.com 207.490.5992
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