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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 21:18:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: "Dave C." <hysterx@interaccess.com>
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Subject: Re: scsi tape problems..aha0
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it really does sound like the wrong interrupt..
please check what the card IS set to.
there is a possibility that the printout of irq 11 may
be what the kernel is expecting rather than what the card is at..


On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Dave C. wrote:

> hello,
> 
> aha0 at 0x234-0x237 irq 11 drq 7 on isa
> aha0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
> 
> and the tape drive gets started with the following message which also
> seems normal:
> 
> (aha0:6:0): "WangDAT Model 3100 02.2" type 1 removable SCSI 2
> st0(aha0:6:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x13,  drive empty

it's odd that it reports as empty but....
At this stage it's polling and not using interrupts yet.

> 
> well the drive isn't empty though. but other than that no errors occur
> untill I try to do anything with the
> drive. I try any command ..mt tar newfs..etc. and the device times out
> giving me the following message:

newfs????
valid commands for tapes are dd, tar, cpio, mt, dump 
and that's about all..
oh yeah
scsi(8)
> 
> st0(aha0:6:0): timed out
> st0(aha0:6:0): timed out  AGAIN
> 
> fix it.
> 
> As far as I can tell there is no other device(s) using IRQ 11 nor trying
> to use the base address of the scsi card.
> The bios is disabled on the card by the looks of the switch on the card.

that shouldn't matter

> 

julian


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