On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 22:21, C. Linus Hicks wrote: > 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> > duh Oh! He said he only has one scsi device. All the others he mentioned are USB (scsi emulation) and do not use the scsi adapter.