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Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 22:04:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Snob Art Genre <brosenga@calvin.pitzer.edu>
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Subject: SCSI tape drive, 2.1.7, no detection
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I am trying to get a SCSI tape drive to detect under 2.1.7.  It has no
identifying markings, unfortunately.  It takes "DDS/90m" 4mm tapes that I
am assured hold 4 GB.  

I connected the drive to my Buslogic BT-948's external mini 50-pin
connector, recompiled the kernel with 

device 	st0

uncommented, rebooted and -- nothing.  It seemed to take a little longer
than usual for SCSI devices to settle, but I reboot so infrequently that I
can't be sure that's real.

I made st0:

/dev# ./MAKEDEV st0
/dev# ls st*
st0ctl.0        st0ctl.2        stderr          stdout
st0ctl.1        st0ctl.3        stdin

The tape drive is terminated.  It has a little window with a "4" in it,
which I take to mean that it's configured to show up as SCSI device 4.  I
don't have anything else at SCSI id 4.

Is there any help for me?



 Ben