Re: Reading ancient tapes using Emulex MD21 SCSI board

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From: Nick Andrew
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:04

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nick@zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew) writes:

>Theories:
>	- the MD21 is not needed and is confusing the issue

I found the tape drive is actually driven by its own controller
board (not the Emulex MD21, thankfully!). I unplugged the MD21
and Linux can now see the tape drive but read/write operations
do not work.

Also the tape drive identifies itself as "Sequential Access" but
the SCSI identification fields are all null. Maybe normal...!

Nick.
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