dirk@dksoft.UUCP (Dirk Koeppen) (09/06/89)
I just tried to connect a SCSI tape to 386/ix rel. 2.0.2 with their included tape driver but it does not recognize the tape drive. I use the aha1540 as the second controller and therefore use maj/min 41/72. ISC says that you can use any SCSI ID with the tape but on my system the tape will only be recognized if I use SCSI IDs > 3 and very strange there must be a disk connected onto the SCSI otherwhise nothing will be accepted. When using a Tandberg TD 3660 streamer which is fairly compatible to the Wangtek drives and also fixed-block (512 Bytes) the system boots, scans the SCSI for devices, rewinds the tape and then the system hangs. Using a GIGATAPE (one of these 1,2G DAT-drives) gives better results. The systems boots as expected. But when I try to read/write the tape I get the message 'Variable-sized records on dumb DMA tape!' and the system dumps. I used this TC_GETPARMS ioctl call for the gentape device and it gives me a variable-block sized tape which is ok but it also tells that the blocksize is set to 1 byte. Does anybody have better experience with the 386/ix tape driver ? thanx, dirk@incom.de