Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA02824; Mon, 18 Dec 95 21:58:55 EST Received: from pain.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA23296; Mon, 18 Dec 95 21:58:53 EST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA24007; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 20:55:33 -0500 Received: from rmkhome.rmkhome.com by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA23980; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 20:42:56 -0500 Received: (from rmk@localhost) by rmkhome.rmkhome.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) id UAA17971; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 20:42:21 -0500 From: Rick Kelly Message-Id: <199512190142.UAA17971@rmkhome.rmkhome.com> Subject: Re: Archive viper config. To: jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com (John F. Woods) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 20:42:21 -0500 (EST) Cc: pefo@enea.se, dgilbert@pci.on.ca, port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG, current-users@NetBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199512180217.VAA15333@jfwhome.funhouse.com> from "John F. Woods" at Dec 17, 95 09:17:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 594 Sender: owner-port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG Precedence: list X-Loop: port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG John F. Woods said: >My Viper-150 autodetects fine. Well, almost fine; the first attempt to >read a tape fails after a boot due to an "illegal SCSI command"; I assume >that the driver is trying to use some SCSI-2 command to set the default >density -- but after that, the drive is perfectly happy to do the tedious >density check and off it goes. I've read all three densities on the drive. My two NetBSD boxes both have Archive Viper 2150S tape drives. No problems, even after a boot. -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.com rmk@tencats.rmkhome.com http://tencats.rmkhome.com