LTO3 tape drive not detected

[Adam Vande More]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Joe in MPLS <joe at gracenpeace.net> wrote:

> The system sees the SCSI controller as mpt0, and it seems to know there's
> something at SCSI ID 4, but I get an "AutoSense Failed" for hba/id/lun 0:4:0
> at boot and subsequent camcontrol rescans.
>
> I checked the supported hardware doc for the release but it doesn't get
> very specific about tape drives. This is my first experience with LTO3 tape.
> I was hoping that I'd automagically get a /dev/sa0 device like I always did
> with my old DLT drives but it wasn't to be this time.
>
> Is there a way to make this drive work?
>

I don't the answer to your question, it's been quite some time since I
worked with a tape drive.  Off-topic question, what type of capacities to
tapes support now days?

I think think you may have more luck posting this question to a different
list, stable@ is the one that comes to mind for me.

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Adam Vande More