duane@ginosko.samsung.com (09/30/89)
Well, we have been trying to get an Exabyte tape drive working on our Sun-3/260 for some time now. I am now officially desparate enough to ask for help from sun-spots. We have a 1/4" cartridge tape (st0/st8) on the first SCSI controller card (si0). For some reason lost in antiquity, we ordered a separate SCSI card (si1) for the exabyte. After much screwing around, we finally got the second SCSI recognized by the kernel, with 2 tapes on it: st2@si1 slave 32, st3@si1 slave 40. Here, we quit having any luck. The kernel doesn't seem to recognize that there is a tape drive out there. Any pointers to appropriate switch settings on the exabyte, and what device names in /dev we need would be VERY much appreciated. Machine downtime to experiment with the drive is hard to come by, and we are running out of easy ideas to try out. Andrew L. Duane (JOT-7) w:(508)-685-7200 X122 h:(603)-434-7934 Samsung Software America decvax!cg-atla!ginosko!duane 1 Corporate Drive uunet/ Andover, MA. 01810 duane@ginosko.samsung.com