From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 8 16:22: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4574937B401; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:21:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA62967; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 19:21:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 19:21:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: cristian nicolae Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI DAT tape detection on Compaq DL380 In-Reply-To: <3A5870B9.D4402452@chello.at> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, cristian nicolae wrote: > I have a Compaq DL380 with an integrated Compaq Smart Array Controller. > I have succesfully managed to install the FreeBSD 4.2-20010104 > and everything is fine but the DAT drive which is not detected. The SCSI passthrough interface on that controller isn't supported by FreeBSD's 'ida' driver. My impression from reading various docs is that it is likely to be quite slow as well. Hook the DAT drive up to the internal SCSI adapter (I assume it has one since it would be fairly silly not to.) -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message