Hi
I've been trying to get my tape to work with my 2940UW controller, but
with no luck. The tape is a Seagate STT28000N-RF and is supposed to
work. The tape is detected at boot but when I try to use it (i.e. tar
cf /dev/st0 tape.test) the tape whirrs for a short while and the stops,
but with the activity light on. tar is also stuck and not even kill -9
can stop it. I've tried to fiddle around with the SCSISelect utility but
I haven't stumbled on a setting that works for me. The SCSI HOWTO says
that the BIOS on the controller has to be enabled for it to work but as
I only have the tape on the bus, it is disabled automatically (as far as
I have been able to find out, the BIOS is only used to boot from a disk
on the controller). Is it fundamentally necessary to have the BIOS
enabled to be able to use the tape or might it be that something else is
interfering? Is there a way to track this problem down? Perhaps using
gdb? As for now, I don't have a clue as to what might be happening.
I'm pretty sure that there are no hardware conflicts in the system, and
/dev/st0 is a character device with major 9 and minor 0.
My system is a slightly modified Debian 2.0, running kernel 2.2.5 with
the crypt extension.
The hardware I have is: Soundblaster AWE64, 3c509 ethernet, 3D Artist
and Voodo2.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Jens Pall
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