From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 22 20:29:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7E837B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:29:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E806543E3B for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:29:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Scott_Long@adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9N3Tbj26997; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:29:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from OTCEXC01.otc.adaptec.com (otcexc01.otc.adaptec.com [10.12.1.27]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA27278; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:29:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by otcexc01.otc.adaptec.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <4TQCXHD0>; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:29:36 -0400 Message-ID: <6100BCEB85F8E244959C756C04E0EDD161CAE8@otcexc01.otc.adaptec.com> From: "Long, Scott" To: "'Paul Radford'" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: ciss driver support for tape drives? Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:29:35 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > > I've got a Compaq DL320 server here, with a SmartArray 532 SCSI/RAID > controller in it. The "ciss" driver detects the logical RAID volume > attached to the controller, but it does not detect the two DLT tape > drives attached to it on the external port. However, they are > detected > by the BIOS on boot, so there is nothing physically wrong (all > terminated, cabled correctly, etc). > > From my reading of the "ciss" driver source, the driver only > supports > logical drives, i.e. disk arrays. Although the tape drives > are supported > by the card, they are not supported by the driver. > > Is this correct, and if so, is it likely to change? I'd love > to know if > anybody has gotten tape drives working on a ciss-supported card. I'd > hate to have to put Linux on the box just to get tape support in the > driver. :( > > System: 4.6-STABLE as of August 27, driver source hasn't noticeably > changed in 4.7-RELEASE either (I checked). > camcontrol is of no help whatsoever, it just reports the > logical drive. > > > Thanks for any help, > Paul Radford > SCSI passthrough is not supported by the CISS driver. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message