On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 at 8:50pm, Gordon J. Mills III wrote
Yes, I am using the aic7xxx driver. I am using the adaptec 39160 card. My tape drive is a dell 112T, basically a 1U unit with 2 DLT 40/80 drives in it. The other server had the same scsi card with Compaq AIT-35 8 tape autoloader. I will try installing the new kernel to see. The 2 servers that it happened to recently had the debian package kernel 2.6.12-1-smp.
FWIW (and so it's in the archives), if you decide to switch host adapters, I've had very good luck with LSI based products. My AIT3 loader is hanging off a 53c1010 based board (U160) using the sym53c8xx_2 driver, and my LTO3 loader is on a 53c1030 based board (U320) using the mptscsih driver. They run centos-3 and centos-4, respectively.
-- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University