SCSI Tape Drive Problem

Jason Dixon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.admin.managers
Organization DixonGroup Consulting
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Folks:

I've run into some difficulty getting a DDS-3 tape drive running under
Red Hat Linux 8.0.  This is a used but working drive I picked up on
Ebay.  The server has an Advansys ABP940U controller, and the drive is a
rebadged Seagate STD224000N, which appears to linux to be an Archive
Python 04106-XXX.

The drive shows up successfully in dmesg, but not in /proc/scsi/scsi or
scanpci.  mt doesn't recognize st0 or nst0, even after manually loading
st.o. 

I've since tried other configurations via the switchbank, rather than
the jumpers (except to terminate the channel).  I've set the SCSI ID to
5 (controller is 7), MRS to on, parity off, DDS pass-through off,
Inquiry string on (reports Seagate now rather than Archive) and POST
off.  The 9 and 10 dips are for UNIX configuration.  Unfortunately,
nothing on the Seagate site refers to using these switches with Linux.

Anybody have any ideas?

[dmesg]
scsi1 : AdvanSys SCSI 3.3G: PCI Ultra: IO 0xE000-0xE00F, IRQ 0xA
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: DAT   04106-XXX  Rev: 727A
  Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi : 1 host left.

[root@jason scsi]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: LITE-ON  Model: LTR-24102B       Rev: 5S54
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02

-- 
Jason Dixon, RHCE
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net
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