Is there anything peculiar about tapes or CDROM writers?
The tape drive I'm using, BTW, is an Archive Viper that worked like a
jewel on a Sun. I wonder if this isn't a hardware problem with Intel
based generic boards?
-- Jay
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Systemkennung Linux wrote:
->
->> Interesting question. I learned a long time ago -- about 1.2.28
->> (a.out) that IDE and SCSI didn't mix well -- particularly with a tape
->> drive on the SCSI bus. Is that because tapes can't
->> disconnect/reconnect? Can your CD writer? Or is it an INT 13 problem?
->>
->> My problem was always on _reads_ from the tape and a hard reset was
->> generally the solution. I would _really_ appreciate someone explaining
->> how IDE, EIDE and SCSI can or can't work together.
->>
->> Is tagged queueing part of the problem? (Free BSD, doesn't support it,
->> I think, and I had the same problem with it -- except it trashed the
->> disk.)
->
->The DPT maintains large command queues in it's internal memory. I
->suppose this might be contraproductive in this case. From my own
->experience I know that the driver is very solid otherwise.
->
-> Ralf
->
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