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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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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

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