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From: Steven Tulchinsky <tulchins@voland.phoebe.com>
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Subject: EXABYTE  SCSI tape
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Hi everybody,

Here is my problem. I can't make my SCSI tape drive
work. If drive is empty at the boot time I get:
  (ahc0:3:0): "EXABYTE EXB-8200 2618" type 1 removable SCSI 1
st0(ahc0:3:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x0,  drive empty    
   
if I put tape in it tries to access it and after three "device busy"
shows "drive empty".

How can I get it to work. I am tired of reinstalling and 
reconfiguring the system after every crash :-(

I am running 2.1 from cdrom. I have pentium 90 with adaptec 2940.

Thanks a lot for your help.
Please reply to tulchins@ix.netcom.com.

Steven