[plug] IDE tape drive [solution]

[Michael Hunt]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:53, Onno Benschop wrote:
> 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 

Does the tape drive have any firmware patches available for it ??? It
could be the tape drives firmware that is causing the problem.

Michael Hunt

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