Latest -STABLE detects my DLT drive as a CD-ROM

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 10 13:30:15 PDT 2003


On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> I just updated to the latest -STABLE:
>
> FreeBSD copernicus.clarkeadvertising.com 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE
> #19: Thu Jul  3 22:32:00 EDT 2003
>
> And now my DLT tape drive shows up as a CD-ROM.  Previously on:
>
> FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #18: Mon May 26 13:41:28 EDT 2003
>
> I saw:
>
> sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
> sa0: <BNCHMARK DLT1 3E20> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
> sa0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
>
> Now I see:
>
> cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
> cd0: <BNCHMARK DLT1 5032> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
> cd0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
> cd0: cd present [307201 x 2048 byte records]
>
> Any ideas?  The device was working properly with backups regularly
> succeeding.

As a follow-up, after fixing some cabling issues, and rebooting the drive,
the problem has gone away.  The DLT drive now shows up as sa0 as it
should.  Thanks for all the advice.

Joe

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