Quantum DLT IV tape drive and PCI interface card compatibi..

On Mar 30, 10:47 pm, Arno Wagner <m... DeleteThis @privacy.net> wrote:
> Previously JM <JandCMo... DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyone know why the SATA/150 PCI card that came with a Maxtor SATA
> > drive won't recognize my SATA tape drive?
> > Reading the manual and from what I have googled it seems maybe the
> > card only supports hard disk drives. Is this really a limitation of
> > PCI cards? If so can someone recommend me a PCI (not PCI-express) card
> > that I could use with my SATA tape drive.
>
> Well, depends. It may be a BIOS limitation of the card. Would surprise
> me if it was a hardware limitation. If your OS supports hot-plugging
> on the specific SATA controller, try that. It should bypass the
> card's BIOS. May not yield a permenent solution, but if that
> works, you know at least that the problem is definitely the
> card's BIOS.
>
> Arno

Yup - Linux sorts it out - needed to use 2.6.21 (rc5-git7) which has
an atapi upgrade to the promise TX2plus driver.

Booting this server takes a while because the PCI card BIOS wants to
fart around failing to find my tape drive and then waits even longer
to tell me that there is a problem before giving up and letting the
motherboard BIOS continue to fire up my hard drive.

Thanks

Jonathan
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