tape changer, but not tape drive
Dan Langille
dan at langille.org
Wed Oct 28 01:39:09 UTC 2009
I first encountered this problem in April, now I'm back to it:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2008-April/003452.html
In short, the system has tape library. The library has worked in the
past (http://www.freebsddiary.org/digital-tl891.php) but now it does
not. I can see either the tape library or the tape drive. Which I see
depends upon the cable configuration.
http://www.freebsddiary.org/images/tape-libraries-cables.jpg
As shown above, that's how I would expect things to work normally.
However, in that configuration, I do not see the tape drive. The cable
going down, goes to the computer. If I reconnect that cable to the plug
to the left of the terminator, the system can see the DLT drive, but not
the tape library.
Under 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD, I can see either one device or the other.
ch0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
ch0: Removable Changer SCSI-2 device
ch0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit)
ch0: 10 slots, 1 drive, 1 picker, 0 portals
or
sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
sa0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit)
acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 sks=0x40 0x00
0x01
Any ideas?
Full dmesg output here: http://www.langille.org/tmp/dmesg.boot
TIA.
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