Hello, I have a SCSI tape autoloader that's capable of having 4 * 4Gig 4 mm dat on it. Problem is that when the kernel boots, it recognize it as a removable hard drive (/dev/sdb) instead of a tape drive. I use adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter. Pointer? Clue?
--snippet from dmesg: md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 aic7xxx: BurstLen = 8 DWDs, Latency Timer = 32 PCLKS aic7xxx: AHA-2940A Ultra Rev C. aic7xxx: devconfig = 0x1100. aic7xxx: Reading SEEPROM...done. aic7xxx: Extended translation enabled. aic7xxx: Memory check yields 3 SCBs, paging not enabled. AHA-2940A Ultra (PCI-bus), I/O 0xd800, Mem 0xe7000000: irq 10 bus release time 40 bclks data fifo threshold 100% SCSI CHANNEL A: scsi id 7 scsi selection timeout 256 ms scsi bus reset at power-on enabled scsi bus parity enabled scsi bus termination (low byte) disabled aic7xxx: Downloading sequencer code...done. aic7xxx: Resetting the SCSI bus...done. scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 4.0/3.2/4.0 scsi : 1 host. scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices. Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 scsi0: Target 0, channel A, now synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset 15. Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL_TM2110S Rev: 300X Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 scsi0: Target 4, channel A, now synchronous at 4.4MHz, offset 15. scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries. SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. aic7xxx: (reset) target/channel 4/0 aic7xxx: (reset_device) target/channel -1/A, active_scb 0 aic7xxx: (reset_channel) Resetting current channel A aic7xxx: (reset_channel) Channel reset, sequencer restarted scsi0: Target 4, channel A, now synchronous at 4.4MHz, offset 15. Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 02636-XXX Rev: 567D Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 scsi0: Target 6, channel A, now synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset 15. Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330 Rev: S61A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 scsi : detected 3 SCSI disks total. scsi0: Target 0, channel A, now synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset 15. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4124736 [2014 MB] [2.0 GB] sdb : READ CAPACITY failed. sdb : status = 1, message = 00, host = 7, driver = 27 sdb : sense not available. sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8467200 [4134 MB] [4.1 GB] thank's, Louis. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .