FW: VXA-1a IDE (V2EAE) on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE

[Harald Schmalzbauer]

On Friday 28 November 2003 22:01, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe LeCavalier [mailto:plecavalier at cyberus.ca]
> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 3:59 PM
> To: 'freebsd-questions at freebsd.org'
> Subject: VXA-1a IDE (V2EAE) on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE
>
> Has anyone managed to get the vxa-1working under FreeBSD?

Not really sure, but these IDE-VXAs are proprietary. I know the SCSI drives 
are standards and working fine with sa, but unfortunately Exabyte/Ecrix never 
have released any IDE driver and those were like mentioned proprietary!

Best regards,

-Harry

>
> Nfo:
>
> Ls /var/log/messages | grep ast0
>
> ast0: MODE_SENSE - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 sks=0x40 0x00 0x02
> error=0x04
> ast0: <ECRIX VXA-1a/V22EAE> - NO DRIVER!
>
> 4.9 REL has ATAPI tape device support enabled by default.
>
> The Linux (vxatool-linux) tool does this:
>
> ./vxaTool /dev/ast0 -i
> vxaTool V3.72  --  Copyright (c) 1996-2003, Exabyte Corp.
>
> Failed to open /dev/ast0 for read-write.
> Done
>
> Anyone care to help out?
>
> Regards,
> Phil
>
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