pdg@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Guthrie) (10/02/89)
Well, SCSI tapes (at least Archive viper drives) and the Adaptec 1542 controllers do work. My problem was simply that the one page fax of jumpers for my HP SCSI drive was totally wrong. I should have guessed at this when I noticed the number of jumpers was different on the drive than the document :-). Anyhow, I had both the 1542 and the HP disk drive on SCSI ID 7. This (surprisingly) caused no trouble for the disk, but screwed up other things on the bus. After Fixing this, the dtape comes up and runs well. Also, make sure when buying the Archive tape drive that your firmware revision in 4 or more (the current is 5). Archive will stiff you $50 for an upgrade. -- Paul Guthrie chinet!nsacray!paul