From: rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo) Subject: [SCSI] tape problem Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1993 00:29:54 GMT
I'm using an aha1540b with an archive 150m scsi tape under
.99.2 with everything compiled in. When I boot up, the
kernel recognizes the archive drive and ends up saying
that it detected 1 tape, 0 disks, and 0 cd-roms.
After that, however, all attempts to access the tape drive
are met with, e.g., "tar: can't open /dev/st0: Bad file
number." I tried 'mknod /dev/st0 b 9 N', where N is all
numbers from 0 to 7. The drive is at SCSI ID 4, but that
should make no difference.
A nearly identical system at work has the exact same
equipment with the addition of a SCSI hard drive. The
tape drive on that system works fine.
This wasn't a permissions problem, a wrong major number
problem, a power problem, a compiled-kernel problem, or
a SCSI chain problem. What it *looks* like is that
you can't use a SCSI tape drive on a system that doesn't
have a physical SCSI hard disk. Is this the case, or am
I on drugs? Appreciate knowing either way at rhodesia@
wixer.cactus.org. Thanks in advance!
Felix
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