Re: TAPE problems with 3.0e of Linux NCR538XX SCSI drivers
Michael Meissner (meissner@cygnus.com)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 12:19:02 -0400
| Huh. I'm not so certain about that. I had the same problem on Monday
| with some very old exabyte that I wanted to use because nobody else
| wants it. `echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 5 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi'
| brought the shell-builtin echo to D-state, no further reaction, no
| blocked drives, until after rebooting - scsi dead. Since I suspected
| a cable problem I didn't follow it any further, but it worked a week
| ago with the same hardware, except that I couldn't do non-rewinding
| operation, which sucks universes.
|
| This stuff here sucks badly, so I won't continue testing with
| it any more. The material is just too old, and you never figure out
| where the problems are. It only pays if you know it works on different
| soft/hardware.
Its an article of faith among many people that sooner or later, you will need
to sacrifice a goat over your SCSI-chain at some point to get it to work :-)
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Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office)
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