Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:14:42 -0500 From: John Pinnow <jspinnow@wixb.com> To: "J.D. Bronson" <lists@xpec.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scsi external tape Message-ID: <20021023151442.GA2581@ciclon.wixb.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.5.2.20021021182606.00b2ae40@molson.wixb.com> References: <5.2.0.5.2.20021021182606.00b2ae40@molson.wixb.com>
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 06:29:33PM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I am running 4.7 and using an adaptec 2940 PCI card. > I have a HP external scsi tape drive. > > While this all works, I noticed the following: > > Unless the tape drive is connected to the scsi bus > and TURNED on, when I boot the machine it will not allow > me to later use any tape commands. It returns "device not configured". > Yes for most tape drives. > Is this normal? > > I thought that I would be able to simply connect up the tape drive and > power it up whenever I wanted and leave it off and disconnected when not in > use. The particular card and device has to be designed to hot swapable. Not recommened for tape drives. They are so flaky unless initialized on boot up. > J.D. Bronson > Aurora Health Care // Information Systems // Milwaukee, WI USA > Office: 414.978.8282 // Fax: 414.328.8282 // Pager: 414.603.8282 > -- John Stewart Pinnow jspinnow@wixb.com Philosopher, Progammer, Analyst To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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