Hello Paul ,  Is the tape drive the only drive on that controller ?

 -      If it is the only drive then , I have just one suggestion
        -verify- all cables are seated correctly & -verify- that there
        is proper termination on the bus .

 -      If it is Not the only drive then ,
        Try grabbing an pci scsi card of known goodness & place the tape
        drive on that all by itself (just as a test) , making sure of
        proper termination .
        If that works then reveiw the configurations of the other
        drives/tapes/... that are on the bus causing problems .
                Hth ,  JimL

On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> Ooops.. yes.. that info might have been useful. :)
> The box is a Compaq PL3000. Chipset is the onboard Sym 53c876, driven
> by the ncr53c8xx driver. Drive is external.
> Kernel is RH6.2 default 2.2.14-5.0smp.

> On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> >     Hello Paul ,  Could you add a little more info like which scsi
> >     chipset you are using & what the driver version is & what kernel
> >     version you are running also (One more )& how you have the drive
> >     chained to the scsi-bus .  Someplace there is a pointer on howto
> >     reset the scsi-bus from the /proc system , BUT the method is
> >     highly not recommended .  Hth ,  JimL
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