RE: detecting SCSI tape drive
Tried going to www.feral.com yesterday and today, but nothing shows up.
Today I can't get a DNS lookup. Has feral moved, or is there perhaps
another source for the combined driver? I'd like to give it a shot.
Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Marcus Williams wrote:
> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:47:00 -0000
> From: Marcus Williams <marcus@quintic.co.uk>
> To: Ernest Johanson <ejohan@fuller.edu>, debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: detecting SCSI tape drive
> Resent-Date: 28 Jan 2000 09:54:01 -0000
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> Hi -
>
> I had similar problems a while ago with our alpha and a DEC tape drive. I
> could not get it working reliably enough to use on our machine which we use
> as a file server (and backup device), so I swapped to a new ethernet card.
> Apparently, the qlogic driver _does_ support disconnect/reconnect according
> to Matthew Jacob who wrote the new combined qlogic driver (although this is
> from memory so sorry if I'm wrong). It may be worth trying his driver
> instead as it definately made a difference on our alpha box - see
> http://www.feral.com Its been in the Free/Net/OpenBSD releases for quite a
> while. Unfortunately we'd already bought the new card so I couldnt say for
> definite it fixed our tape/scsi problems.
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