Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:43:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE tape drive stt3401a Message-ID: <200604180843.k3I8hI6E049636@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20060415153418.M52372@bmyster.com>
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Carl Foote <cfoote@bmyster.com> wrote: > 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. You haven't removed the ast(4) driver from your kernel, have you? > Documentation > for the drive does state it cannot be on the same controller as a hard drive, > which I verified. It can be on the same controller, but not on the same channel. As far as I know, it works when configured as slave device (even though this isn't really a legal ATA configuration): atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f,0-0x3,0-0x7,0-0x3,0-0x7 irq 9 at device 31.1 on pci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ast0: TAPE <Seagate STT3401A> at ata1-slave PIO3 > So, on its own controller (secondary) as master Try to configure it as slave device. > 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. There is no way, and it wouldn't be useful anyway. If no driver attaches to the device, a device node in /dev wouldn't buy you anything. > ANY suggestions would be appreciated. You're not giving much information ... It would be helpful to know what kind of controller you have. An appropriate excerpt from a verbose boot might contain useful information (/var/run/dmesg.boot). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "I started using PostgreSQL around a month ago, and the feeling is similar to the switch from Linux to FreeBSD in '96 -- 'wow!'." -- Oddbjorn Steffensen
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