More ASUS P2B-DS Woes

[Doug Ledford]

Russell Brown wrote:
> 
> For the record, I've just tried running the DAT Tape in sync mode with
> ASUS bios 1008 and aic7xxx 5.1.12
> 
> Result: SCSI timeouts :-(
> 
> Ho Hum - back to async for the DAT.

Note that for some Seagate SCSI tape drives, if you call tech support with a
problem under any OS the first thing they make you do is disable sync support
on the tape device.  I know of a few others that are like that also.  There
appears to be a small trend that a few models of tape drive simply don't work
well in sync mode.

-- 
  Doug Ledford   <dledford at redhat.com>
   Opinions expressed are my own, but
      they should be everybody's.


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