Re: Reading ancient tapes using Emulex MD21 SCSI board

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From: M. Buchenrieder
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:16

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

>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.

[...]

This is probably caused by the missing terminator. You'll need
at least passive termination on the drive to get that working.
I have to agree with the previous' poster: Get yourself a
borrowed QIC-150 SCSI tape drive instead, as it can easily
read 60 MB cartridges, although you'll have to experiment
with the blocksize that the Sun had used when writing to the
tape.

Michael
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From: mibu@scrum.muc.de (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Reading ancient tapes using Emulex MD21 SCSI board
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