[plug] IDE tape drive [solution]

[Jon Miller]

Report it to Intel since it's an communication issue between the BIOS and the device and then cc Sony or the makers of the tape device. Report it to the kernel team only after the response from the other two.  You may need to send the kernel team the information you get from Intel and Sony or whoever the device is made by.
Just be prepared to wait awhile for responses.

Jon

Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS, ASE
Director/Sr Systems Consultant
MMT Networks Pty Ltd
http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au

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 is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby



>>> onno at itmaze.com.au 8:53:11 PM 29/09/2003 >>>
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 18:02, Jon Miller wrote:
> Interesting, I say this because I've seen some BIOS that have what you
> saw Matt and in another location it shows you more settings.  Also on
> the ver first option you can set if the IDE connectors are Auto, None,
> LBA, etc.  So there were no other settings for the IDE connectors? 
> What BIOS and version was this? also was the BIOS updated to the most
> recent version?  Reason I ask is I've seen this before on a system who
> had the settings nicely tucked away.

The front settings were likely set to Auto, but I've looked through that
BIOS several times myself, had others look and Matt looked, nothing
else.

Initially the version was p04-0009, Matt updated that to the latest with
no difference.

The problem was that the channel was working with one drive on ide0 and
one cdrom on ide1. We installed a second drive on ide0 and replaced the
cdrom with a tape drive and the secondary channel vanished - although
the BIOS saw all three devices. As stated earlier, all permutations of
drives and channels were tested and the only working version was one
drive on ide0, and the tape and other drive on ide1.

Back to my original question, do I tell the Kernel team so they can
work-around it, or how do I tell Intel that their BIOS is broken - as
both Matt and I suspect.

Cheers,

Onno Benschop 

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