On 7 Mar 2004, at 18:41, Matt Dainty wrote:

> Hi,
>
Hello,

> Just a quick one, are there any simple SCSI cards that are known to be
> electrically compatible with the Qube PCI slot?
>
I've not found the answer to this yet, either.

> I'm wanting to get something along the lines of an Adaptec 2904 (Fast
> SCSI, 50-pin internal/external) to hook a tape drive up externally.
>
This is exactly what I want(ed) to do !

> Anyone running a SCSI card in their Qube?
>
I tried an NCR card (not got the exact number to hand) and a Sony DDS2 
tape drive.  Both the card and drive worked 100% on a W2K system via 
both Windows backup and Cygwin/tar, so I built a kernel (1.6) and put 
the card in.  It was detected, and probed the SCSI bus without a 
problem.  I could rewind and eject tapes, and do small tar jobs, but as 
soon as I tried a proper backup, the tar job would stall and be totally 
unkill -9 able: not matter what I tried the stuck tar job was there 
until a reboot.

I don't know which part of the SCSI system or NCR driver was wedged but 
I couldn't eject tapes or rewind them once the tar job got stuck: I had 
to power cycle the drive to get the tape out.  I never found an 
alternative card so it could just be mine that wasn't 100% on the Qube, 
but then I've never got to the bottom of the random crashes and poor 
drive/network throughput that NetBSD shows on my system that the old 
Linux 2.0 load didn't, so it might all yet be related.

I've not tried anything more recent than a stock 1.6, but just a 
warning really: when you've dumped a full tape of data then you can be 
happy that it's working, just don't get too excited when the bus gets 
probed !

HTH,
-- 
ian.
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