From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 07:24:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA10337 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:24:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from tellab5.lisle.tellabs.com (tellab5.lisle.tellabs.com [138.111.243.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA10330 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:24:04 -0800 (PST) From: mikebo@tellabs.com Received: from sunc210.tellabs.com by tellab5.lisle.tellabs.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0ta2N9-000jD8C; Wed, 10 Jan 96 09:23 CST Received: by sunc210.tellabs.com (SMI-8.6/1.9) id JAA01504; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 09:23:15 -0600 Message-Id: <199601101523.JAA01504@sunc210.tellabs.com> Subject: Re: EXABYTE SCSI tape To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 09:23:14 -0600 (CST) Cc: mikebo (Mike Borowiec) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Bob Beaulieu stands accused of saying: > > >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 When the drive is empty I get this message too, but my Exabyte 8200 works just fine when I push a tape in. At one time, I remember reading that you must be running a relatively recent drive PROM - but I don't remember the version you need. Anyone? - Mike -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Borowiec - mikebo@tellabs.com - Tellabs Operations Inc. Senior Member of Technical Staff 4951 Indiana Avenue, MS 63 708-512-8211 FAX: 708-512-7099 Lisle, IL 60532 USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------