RES: RES: How to install SCSI tape DAT 20/40 on 3.0? - HELP

["Estevam Viragh Junior" <estevam.viragh@sitelbrasil.com.br>]

> > But the Tape driver is missing...
> > I've also tried with this DLT Tape and dmesg was the same:
> >
> > DLT Tape:               External Quantum DLT 4000 on Bus 1 - SCSI ID 6
> >
> > Both Tapes worked just fine on another OS...(I prefer not say what OS!)
> > I have also tried with a 2.9 OBSD, but the results were the same...
>
> and that pretty well confirms my suspicions...
>
> Apparently, the cac(4) driver is only a disk driver, not a generic
> SCSI driver.  It isn't looking for tape drives, and maybe not other
> SCSI devices.  DLTs work on OpenBSD and there are relatively few
> makers and models of DLT drives, so the fact that your DLT was ignored
> means the cac(4) driver isn't doing the job here.

Yeah, I tried it on another Compaq Server (this one has an diferent
controler) and OBSD detected the controler using cac driver and again the
tape device wasn't detected...

> I rather suspect that if you put a "low-end" supported PCI SCSI card
> in the machine and plug your tape drive into that, it will take off
> and run, recognized as 'st0' as it should be.
>
> Hope this helps...
> Also hope you have a spare SCSI controller to verify my guess without
> spending big money 8-)

:-) :-| :-(
I appreciate your suggestion,
but I have to say that I'll not be truly satisfied using It...

Thanks very much, and
Kind Regards.

EVJ