Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 18:17:32 -0700 From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape drive questions/recommendations Message-ID: <199606180117.SAA00342@kithrup.com>
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And the winner is: aha0 targ 5 lun 0: type 1(sequential) removable SCSI2 aha0 targ 5 lun 0: <ARCHIVE Python 00072-0014.BT> st0: density code 0x13, drive empty Internal unit; it's got a 4 tape cartridge for the autoloader (and the manual says I can get a 12 tape cartridge, if I feel a need ;)). Although it says it's an Archive Python, the documentation that came with it says it's a Connor. I spent a total of about two hours getting it set up; the first problem was getting the damned SCSI cable facing the right way. The second problem was that I had to remove the terminators from the tape drive -- with them in, all the SCSI busses said "Hi! Here's what I am:" but doing any I/O to anything other than the tape drive didn't work, and caused a controller timeout (funky that the new device worked ;)). Anyway, I fixed that, and then tested it by doing a level 0 backup; that seemed to work (although I haven't read the tape back yet to verify it). The doc didn't say whether it was DDS or DDS-2; it does have automagic LZW compression, but I don't think that that alone makes it DDS-2, no? One problem, that I also had with the previous tape drive: if it boots with a tape mounted, it says that the "density code" is 0x0; with the last one, that then meant that I would get an error when I wrote a tape. (This may be a problem with the 1.1++ SCSI driver, admittedly.) Sean.
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