Subject: Re: Anyone got ATAPI tape drives to work?
To: Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk>
From: Bert Kiers <kiers@original.xs4all.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 11/10/2003 17:14:20
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 04:58:58PM +0100, Bert Kiers wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:11:25AM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> > I've had lots of problems getting Seagate/Certance IDE Travan drives
> > working with 1.6 and -current. I've never had problems with the SCSI
> > versions, but those are now virtually extinct. Due to customer price
> > limits, I've been forced to quote for IDE Travans instead of DAT drives
> > and now it's come back to bite me as NetBSD can't drive them reliably:
> 
> I have
> 
> st0 at atapibus0 drive 1: <HP      COLORADO 5GB, US04090639, 2.01000> type 1 sequential removable
> st0: drive empty
> st0: 32-bit data port
> st0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
> pciide0: secondary channel interrupting at irq 15
> st0(pciide0:1:1): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers)
> 
> on
> 
> NetBSD cuddle 1.6.2_RC1 NetBSD 1.6.2_RC1 (CUDDLE) #5: Sun Nov  9 17:37:48 CET 2003     kiers@cuddle:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/CUDDLE i386
> 
> and it just works.

No, it does not. It behaves exactly as you describe in the two mail
references. (Was working from memory in the previous mail, sorry).

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