Re: SCSI tape problems
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Can't anyone please offer some assistance... I'd really like to get SCSI
working...
Thanks again
In article <tenney-2903980251580001@99.think.84.157.209.in-addr.arpa>,
tenney@org.think (Glenn Tenney KOTJ) wrote:
> Well, I spent the evening getting the Adaptec AVA-1505 card working. I
> finally got it so that the system now boots and sees the card. This card
> is supposed to be supported by the AHA152x support.
>
> Here are the kern.log messages now (heads of each line clipped for
> breavity) from when I just rebooted. I have one 1/4 inch Teac tape drive
> on ID 1 (with a tape in it):
>
> kernel: aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
> kernel: aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=11, SCSI ID=7,
> reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100,
> extended translation=disabled
> kernel: aha152x: trying software interrupt, lost.
> kernel: aha152x: IRQ 11 possibly wrong. Please verify.
> kernel: scsi1 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.18 $
> kernel: scsi : 1 host.
> kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi1, channel 0,
> id 0, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
> kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi1, channel 0,
> id 0, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
> kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 1, scsi1, channel 0,
> id 1, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
> kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 1, scsi1, channel 0,
> id 1, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
> ... and so on through id 7
>
> The problems I have now (for which I'd appreciate some ideas) are:
>
> 1. What can I do about the IRQ being "possibly wrong"?
>
> 2. It doesn't seem to find the tape drive... I really want to use it for
> backups, so what can I do? The last time I had the drive turned on it
> was on a Mac and worked aok; the last time I used the cable, it too worked
> ok.
>
> Thanks for any help... suggestions... pointers... And, yes, I have read
> the SCSI how-to's...
>
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Glenn Tenney KOTJ
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