From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Feb 8 12: 1: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D2E3E4E for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 12:01:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.9.3/8.7.3) id MAA44751; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 12:48:28 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 12:48:28 -0700 (MST) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <200002081948.MAA44751@narnia.plutotech.com> To: "alex wetmore" Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD 2.2.2 and Archive Python 4586 DDS-2 autoloader (changer device not detected) X-Newsgroups: pluto.freebsd.scsi In-Reply-To: <06a101bf725f$6159adf0$01fa3b9d@AWETMOREDEV> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980818 ("Laura") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <06a101bf725f$6159adf0$01fa3b9d@AWETMOREDEV> you wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a server machine and this weekend I added a > DDS-2 autoloader to get automated backups. FreeBSD will recognize the drive > as a DDS drive, but doesn't see it as a changer, so the ch device and chio > programs do not work. > > Here is the kernel output during probe: > (ahc0:5:0): "ARCHIVE Python 29987-XXX 5AB" type 1 removable SCSI 2 > st0(ahc0:5:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x13, drive empty In 2.2.2, we did not probe luns above 0 by default. For this kind of changer device, the manufacturer often advertizes the changer on lun 1. Newer versions of FreeBSD scan higher luns by default and will hopefully pick up the changer. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message