On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, nearly comatose, Richard Mann managed to scribble:

::
::      I don't have your same hardware, but some thoughts
::      anyway.
::      
::      1. Does the hardware work under a different OS?,
::      or alternatively,
It's a dual-boot machine, and the drive doesn't work under WIndows either.

::              a. has the tape drive been verified on 
::              another machine?, and
No.  I guess that's the next logical step.
::              b. has the scsi adapter been verified on 
::              another machine?
No.  It's brand new too.
::
::      2. What commands do you use to write and (try to) read?
A variety of tar, cpio, afio commands have been tried.  I tried all
of the suggested commands.
::
::      3. Does this drive have data compression? Can that
::      be avoided for testing?
I don't think there is inherent data compression.  I intended to
use the z option with tar.
::
::      4. How long is the SCSI cabling all told?
Just an internal cable.  Two connectors with the drive on the
furthest from the card end.
::
::      5. What kernel are you running? At one time I had
::      1.2.13, and I could not get the adaptec scsi working
::      right with the driver for that kernel.
2.0.33
::
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::On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Victoria Stanfield wrote:
::
::> If anyone has successfully configured a scsi Tapestor 4/8GB tape
::> on an Adaptec card, I could use some configuration information.
::> I made sure the settings on the drive were default (enable parity 
::> checking, enable active termination, and enable termination power).
::> I tried to set the Adaptec up to match these settings, but I get
::> I/O errors when I try to read from the tape.  All seems right when
::> I write to the tape, but I can't read it.  Any help would be 
::> appreciated beyond understanding.
::> 
Thanks.
Have a good day!
-Vicki
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