Seagate tape drive under tru64

Didier Godefroy · *nix forums beginner Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 7

Hello hard core tru64 managers,

I can't get a seagate tape drive to be recognized under tru64 5.1
The drive is a STD124000N (or STD624000N for its external version)
I can see it fine at the console, depending on the position of a dip switch
(sw7), it either shows up as a seagate DAT or an archive Python.
But under tru64, even scu doesn't see it.
It's on its own scsi bus on a NEC scsi card, single ended, with an NCR
53C810.
Is there any database to tinker with to get this recognized?
Maybe the scsi card may have to be recognized properly first?

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Didier Godefroy
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Didier Godefroy · *nix forums beginner Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 7

It turns out that the problem wasn't in recognizing the tape drive but
rather the scsi card it was hooked up to.

Booting tru64 with the genvmunix was making the tape drive visible, so it
was only a matter of re-building the kernel to recognize the scsi card
(KZPAA type) and the tape drive showed up fine after that.

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