On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 22:37, Gregory Gulik wrote: > C. Linus Hicks wrote: > > It doesn't look like an issue since the driver is detecting the transfer > > rate of 5mb/s, but you could try setting that rate in the SCSI adapter > > for that SCSI ID. Also, you might want to see if you can get this tape > > drive working on another system. > > I tried setting the transfer rate to 5mb/s in the BIOS. No dice. > However I did notice the following error in dmesg after I tried to > access the device with mt: > > st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B), max page reachable by HBA > 1048575 I don't think that is an error. I have seen it in every log listing you have posted. > > For someone who avoids SCSI, you sure do have a lot of SCSI controllers > > in this machine. > > The only real device is this Adaptec card. The rest are a 6-in-1 USB > card reader and a large IDE drive in a USB enclosure as a backup device. Ah! So do you have any other SCSI devices you can test on this card to verify that it works? -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks@xxxxxxxxx>