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Old 03-28-2005, 04:36 AM   #1
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SCSI Card recognition of Tape Drive


Hello

I have a Advansys ASC3030 SCSI card connected to a Redhat 7.2 machine. It is connected to a Seagate CTT8000E-S tape drive. During bootup the SCSI card is recognized together with its parameters as verified by the "dmesg" command. The tape drive is not recognized during bootup and fails to be mentioned by "dmesg". The "/etc/fstab" file does not contain a record of the tape device.

I have powered up the tape drive, switched it on and connected it to the SCSI card using a SCSI cable. It is terminated. It has one LED above the tape but it is not lit when powered on. I do not know whether it should be.

Any help would be appreciated.

Frank
 
Old 03-28-2005, 04:59 AM   #2
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I have a number of similar drives (I think the firmware will tell you it's a Python or similar)
You might like to make sure that there's no tape in the drive (hold the eject button for 30secs and release).
I've never tried one of these drives with an Advansys card, but I can't see that being a problem.

Have you set it to be terminated on the drive, or do you have a terminator on the cable?

I've got a couple fo these drives setup here, but would involve a fair bit of work to take them out and find what they're set to.
Let me know how you go.
 
Old 03-28-2005, 11:55 AM   #3
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Advansys SCSI and Seagate Tape drive

Hello

There is no eject button on the tape drive.

I have verified that the SCSI card is an Advansys ABP940-U/ABP960-U card. Initio the company that rescued bankrupt Advansys 3 years ago claims that they have no information about the SCSI card and cannot help.

There is a terminator on the drive.
 
Old 03-28-2005, 02:33 PM   #4
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No entry is required in your /etc/fstab for the tape drive.
Does the SCSI controller BIOS recognize the tape drive?
Does the output of dmesg show the SCSI controller being recognized?
Look at the ouput of lsmod. Do you see the advansys module loaded?
 
  


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