[plug] IDE-TAPE

[Col]

As a relative newbie can I pose one of the most obvious questions - is there
a tape in the drive???

I ask this as I know with my SCSI DS2 drive that very little is working
unless the tape is in the drive.  Possibly why some things see it and some
dont???

Just a thought

Col

-----Original Message-----
From: Onno Benschop [mailto:onno at itmaze.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2003 8:04 PM
To: PLUG
Subject: Re: [plug] IDE-TAPE


On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 00:33, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > Nada, niente, nichts, nothing. From dmesg:
> >
> >         ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> >         hda: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive
> >         hdb: ST380011A, ATA DISK drive
> >         blk: queue f88276c0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> >         blk: queue f88277fc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> >         ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> >         Journalled Block Device driver loaded
> >         hda: attached ide-disk driver.
> >         hda: host protected area => 1
> >         hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1819KiB Cache,
> >         CHS=77557/16/63, UDMA(33)
> >         hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
> >         hdb: host protected area => 1
> >         hdb: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache,
> >         CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(33)
> >         Partition check:
> >          /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 >
> >          /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: unknown partition table
>
> To me, that looks like the second ATA controller is disabled in BIOS or
> something.

Nope, walked through it step by step. Even set the BIOS to not boot
quickly with no effect.

I've just checked again, still no ide1.

Both the controllers appear to be on. The BIOS reports three devices,
two HDD, one TAPE. There appear to be no controllers turned off
explicitly. The Secondary Master is set to [AUTO] (Which is what I
normally set everything to).



Any other ideas?



Onno Benschop

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