fdomain SCSI controller & Connor Tape Drive - errors

Elliot Lee (sopwith@cuc.edu)
Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:47:39 -0400 (EDT)


I have a Conner DDS2 tape drive running on a Future Domain TMC 16x0 SCSI
controller. Kernel 2.0.23 + ping patch.

fdomain: REQUEST SENSE Key = 4, Code = 46, Qualifier = 0
st0: Error with sense data: extra data not valid Current error st09:00:
sns = 70 4 ASC=46 ASCQ= 0
Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x04 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
0x46 0x00 0x00 0x00

That, I believe, was from an 'mt -f /dev/nst0 rewoffl'.

I haven't been able to get the tape working with the 2.0.x kernels with
much usefulness - I can use mt to rewind things, but that's about it. It
did work fine with kernel 1.2.13, though.

I have everything modularized, but st is not being loaded by kerneld
because of reported problems:
$ lsmod
Module: #pages: Used by:
ncpfs 6 1 (autoclean)
st 6 0
psaux 1 1 (autoclean)
nfs 12 8 (autoclean)
ne 2 1 (autoclean)
8390 2 [ne] 0 (autoclean)
appletalk 4 11 (autoclean)
ipx 3 4 (autoclean)
fdomain 3 4
sd_mod 3 4
scsi_mod 7 [st fdomain sd_mod] 3

Solutions or suggestions would be appreciated.

-- Elliot