From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 14 08:36:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA24271 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA24232 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:35:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id BAA20965; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 01:05:33 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708141535.BAA20965@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Archive Python tape drive, 2.1.7 & 1522 In-Reply-To: <199708141145.EAA12741@hub.freebsd.org> from Darren Reed at "Aug 14, 97 09:45:07 pm" To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 01:05:32 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[