WangDAT 3100

[Brian Ristuccia]

On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, A James Lewis wrote:

>   Vendor: HP        Model: C5110A            Rev: 3701
>   Type:   Processor                          ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi generic sgc at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
> 
> xvscan seems to try writing to the tape and fails even though it's ID 1
> and not even scsi generic.... aaaargh......  
> 

You can use SANE instead of XVscan. I don't think this will fix all of
your problems, but it at least makes sure that the device it's using is a
scanner before sending it commans, thereby preventing accidental damage to
the contents of disks/tapes.

-Brian Ristuccia
 brianr at osiris.ml.org
 bristucc at baynetworks.com
 bristucc at cs.uml.edu