Adding a SCSI contoller and SCSI Tape drive

Jeffrey Ross jeff at bubble.org
Wed Nov 8 21:18:10 UTC 2006


I've got a FC5 system that I wish to add a SCSI controller (Adaptec 2940)
and a DLT tape drive.

I installed the card and the tape drive and the scsi contoller via its
onboard setup/diagnostics recognizes the tape drive (scsi ID 6).

from the unix machine I do:

cat /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0
Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 7.0
Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter
aic7870: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs
Allocated SCBs: 4, SG List Length: 128

Serial EEPROM:
0x0218 0
[...]
Target 6 Negotiation Settings
        User: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 127)
        Goal: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)
        Curr: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)
        Channel A Target 6 Lun 0 Settings
                Commands Queued 10
                Commands Active 1
                Command Openings 0
                Max Tagged Openings 0
                Device Queue Frozen Count 0

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
  Vendor: Quantum  Model: DLT4000 CPQ DRV  Rev: D473
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02



When I send any commands to /dev/st0 the application just sits there, a
"mt -f /dev/st0 stat" just hangs

lsmod does not show the "mt" device, should it be there and if so, how do
I load it?

TIA,

Jeff







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