From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Nov 27 12:30:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ecx1.edifecs.com (unknown [207.149.212.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE4637B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:30:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by ecx1.edifecs.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:28:56 -0800 Message-ID: From: Michael VanLoon To: 'Roger Wilco' , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Qantum DLT 7000 2150 tape unit Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:28:54 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: Roger Wilco [mailto:freebsd@m2mtechnology.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 9:08 PM > > >> I have recently set up a SCSI DLT tape unit on our FreeBSD > file server to > >> take care of backups but I can not get it to work. > > > > I hate that question, but you are quite sure you haven't screwed > > up the SCSI bus configuration? Is this an external device? > > I'm not sure what you mean by the SCSI bus configuration. If > you are talking > about the way the devices are connected to the bus then the > tape device is > the only SCSI device. It is external and it is terminated. > The internal > connectors on the SCSI card are not connected to anything, > but I don't think > that the need to be terminated. Actually, yes, both "ends" need to be terminated. If there is only one device (or all devices are interanl or external) then the SCSI card itself is the other "end". Most modern SCSI cards have an "auto-termination" feature where it senses whether it needs to terminate at the card or not, and does the right thing. You should make sure auto-termination is enabled. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message