From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 22 18:39:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F234B37B562; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 18:39:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA14148; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 20:39:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 20:39:11 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "R. D. Davis" Cc: Josh Paetzel , Anthony Rubin , "Matthew N. Dodd" , "Lawrence Cotnam Jr." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Legacy Device Support (Was RE: No help...) Message-ID: <20000722203910.A13117@dan.emsphone.com> References: <002101bff424$6d0c0ed0$47430ace@hacker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "R. D. Davis" on Sat Jul 22 20:23:54 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 22), R. D. Davis said: > Firstly, I'm using relatively new hardware, less than two years old; > the motherboard, which I paid a lot more for than the typical generic > clone board, is manufactured by Mainboard, which was one of the few > boards at the time whose manufacturer guaranteed it to work with > FreeBSD. The SCSI controller, an Adaptec 1542B, and one of the tape > drives, an Exabyte 8200, are relatively standard - not new, but not I can tell you that SCSI Exabytes drives are most definitely supported. The only tape drives FreeBSD has ever dropped support for are tapes driven off the floppy controller (ft device). At work, we have Exabyte, 3480, and ** 9-track ** tape drives hanging off 4.0-stable boxes, some off 1542 controllers. All I can think is maybe your Exabyte is set to the same SCSI ID as another device on your bus, or there is a termination problem affecting the device probe. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message