SCSI tape drive

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Wed Sep 28 21:52:11 PDT 2005


Van Diep writes:

>  I am a newbies to BSD world so bare with me a moment here please.. I
>  inherited this freebsd 4.10-RELEASE server and i was told to install a DLT
>  20/40 tape drive to the server.
>  
>  So, what i did was;
>  1. shutdown the server
>  2. Install the Adaptec SCSI card into the PCI slot in the server
>  3. Connect the tape drive to the server
>  4. Power up the tape drive then the server
>  
>  I though thats all i need to do to get it working but i was wrong..

	Have you checked the kernel to see that if has the necessary
code to handle a) SCSI and b) SCSI tape drives?


				Robert Huff



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