Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:07:12 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: Carl Foote <cfoote@bmyster.com> Subject: Re: IDE tape drive stt3401a Message-ID: <200604181607.20430.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060415153418.M52372@bmyster.com> References: <20060415153418.M52372@bmyster.com>
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--nextPart1994081.3mpXZrLSf7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 15 April 2006 11:42, Carl Foote 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. Documentation for the drive does state it cannot > be on the same controller as a hard drive, which I verified. So, > on its own controller (secondary) as master, the OS still will not > detect the drive when system boots. I have tried all possibilities > of appropiate jumper settings to no avail. The best I can get out > of the drive is when the OS loads I get a "ata1-slave: FAILURE - > ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out". I get the message three times the os > loads and no drive. > > 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. > > ANY suggestions would be appreciated. This won't help you, but I was in a similar situation when I upgraded=20 from 5.3 to 5.4. My ast tape drive disappeared. Unfortunately I=20 couldn't spend the time to debug the problem so just downgraded to=20 5.3 and it appeared again. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart1994081.3mpXZrLSf7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBERUb4xqA5ziudZT0RAkIpAJ0ciFlf281EaIc3VJespiVxz1h7PgCfcDa+ ZCsf25aZwUVBInpVZ5IVfCE= =9IxE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1994081.3mpXZrLSf7--
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