Alan Cox wrote: >> Oops... sorry.. it was just an assumption. I guess I assumed wrong. I >> hate to be stupid but... where do I start to look for resolution or who >> do I grab to help me out with this? > > For the moment I'm just waiting. Tejun was looking at a similar case with > a CD drive which said "I'm a disk" when the reset occurred followed by > "I'm a CD" when asked. The same fixes may well sort out the tape drive > too. > > (Basically a device has a 'signature' on reset that tells you what it is, > and then there is an identify command which gives more info. If the two > disagree as to the type of device then right now we get quite upset and > try resetting the device to make it talk sense. For the devices that > genuinely in firmware give confusing answers repeatedly resetting them > does not of course make them talk sense). > Thanks for your time and the explanation. If there is anything I can do to help out let me know. -- Jim OpenPGP KeyID: 0x006921e Keyserver: ldap://keyserver.pgp.com
