On 1999-Dec-21 12:08:27 +1100, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tape drives may:
> * Not support disconnection ...
> * Implement a crappy SCSI command stack ...
> * Not properly terminate the SCSI bus ...
> * Introduce too much noise onto the SCSI bus due to bad design.
Do modern drives still support these various `features'? I know
there used to be problems, but I thought Greg was using a (presumably
fairly recent) DLT drive. Given the normal data rates associated with
DLT drives, I would have thought they would behave fairly well.
BTW, since Greg mentioned he was thinking of using an AHA-1542B -
I've found that mine won't work in sync mode. Whenever I tried to
read or write, it would just timeout, until I disabled SYNC. (And
if I increased the sync speed beyond 5MHz, the kernel would usually
panic).
Peter
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