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  From: bmonten <bmonten@adelaide.on.net>
  To  : Michael Firkins <michael@home.lyppard.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:31:38 +1030

Re: Help with IDE Travan tape drive

Problem solved, thanks to the two Mikes.
The bios had a setting "assign irq to video controller". We disabled that
and it worked fine as a primary slave.

cheers,

Brett


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Firkins <michael@home.lyppard.com.au>
To: bmonten@adelaide.on.net <bmonten@adelaide.on.net>
Cc: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Date: Tuesday, 18 January 2000 20:29
Subject: Re: Help with IDE Travan tape drive


>Hi.
>
>Hmm. isn't /dev/hdb a block device and tape like /dev/st(x) character
devices ?
>
>Michael
>
>On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:49:15 +1030, "bmonten" <bmonten@adelaide.on.net>
wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>     I'm trying to load a Travan TapeStor 8gB (ATAPI) on RH5.2. The drive
is
>> detected at boot time, and assigned to /dev/hdb. I pointed /dev/tape to
it,
>> but mt status still gives errors.
>>
>>     The boot comes up with:
>>     hdb Seagate STT8000A, ATAPI TAPE drive, DMA
>>     ide at 0x1f0-0x3f6 on irq 14
>>
>>     the 'mt status' comes up with
>>     ide-tape: hdb: I/O error, pc=1, key=2, asc=3a, ascq=0
>>     ide-tape: Rewinding tape failed
>>     /dev/tape: Input/output error
>>
>>     Interestingly, when I ran the Travan utilities on it, it expected the
>> drive to have an IRQ of 15, which is the video. The drive's actually 14.
>> When I attached the drive to secondary master instead of primary slave
>> (changing the jumpers on the drive to reflect this), the boot process
came
>> up with "ide controller" at irq 14. The machine has on-board IDE.
>>
>>     Any suggestions ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Brett Monten
>>
>>
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