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Date:      Fri, 15 Aug 1997 01:05:32 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Archive Python tape drive, 2.1.7 & 1522
Message-ID:  <199708141535.BAA20965@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199708141145.EAA12741@hub.freebsd.org> from Darren Reed at "Aug 14, 97 09:45:07 pm"

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Darren Reed stands accused of saying:
>    at work we've dug up two Archive Pyhton tape drives:
> 25588-XXX 2.96
> 28388-XXX 5.45
> 
> both are scanned successfully by FreeBSD 2.1.7 at boot time, but any
> attempt to access the drive goes nowhere.  Not even "mt -f status"
> works.

Could you perhaps proffer the boot-time probe messages?

> What's going on here ?

Dunno.  Give us the dipswitch settings too.

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