On Mon, 10 May 1999, Thornton Prime wrote:
>
> We recently purchased a Seagate AIT Sidewinder drive and are having some
> problems with it.
[...]
> I tried the AIT drive on another machine with a different SCSI
> controller (an Adaptec 7890). On that machine, the tape drive doesn't
> work at all. It doesn't lock up the SCSI chain (like it does on the
> BusLogic card), but any command sent to the tape drive simply never
> returns ('mt status', for example just hangs).
>
> IS the AIT Sidewinder simply not supported under Linux, or does this
> sound like a broken tape drive?
I've been using a Sidewinder 4-tape autoloader mounted internally in a
Dell Precision Workstation and attached to the motherboard AIC7890
controller. It's been doing backups three times a week for three
months, and, so far, it's worked fine. The only exception occured
last week when the autoloader insisted one of the tapes was neither in
its slot in the casette nor in the drive - we had to reboot the
machine to fix this.
I should also mention that it doesn't quite fit in the case. It's so
long/deep that we had to mount it with half an inch or so protruding
from the front of the case.
Our system uses Red Hat 5.2 patched up and running a 2.2.x kernel.
It's a dual 400Mhz Xeon on a BX chipset motherboard.
- C
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