SCSI tape drive with Adaptec adapter...

[C. Linus Hicks]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 22:37, Gregory Gulik wrote:
> C. Linus Hicks wrote:
> > It doesn't look like an issue since the driver is detecting the transfer
> > rate of 5mb/s, but you could try setting that rate in the SCSI adapter
> > for that SCSI ID. Also, you might want to see if you can get this tape
> > drive working on another system.
> 
> I tried setting the transfer rate to 5mb/s in the BIOS.  No dice. 
> However I did notice the following error in dmesg after I tried to 
> access the device with mt:
> 
> st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B), max page reachable by HBA 
> 1048575

I don't think that is an error. I have seen it in every log listing you
have posted.

> > For someone who avoids SCSI, you sure do have a lot of SCSI controllers
> > in this machine.
> 
> The only real device is this Adaptec card.  The rest are a 6-in-1 USB 
> card reader and a large IDE drive in a USB enclosure as a backup device.

Ah! So do you have any other SCSI devices you can test on this card to
verify that it works?
-- 
C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc.rr.com>