Hi, I have a Wangtek 5150EQ tape drive for 150Mb QIC tape cartridges, last used some ten years ago, which I would like to get working to read off some old tapes before I finally move it on [sell, recycle, whatever ...] It was working when removed from its original PC, connected to a Wangtek ISA SCSI card, which I still have. I am currently attempting to access it using an Adaptec AHA2940U adaptor, which is being recognised as a host adaptor [AIC-7861] by Knoppix. 'dmesg' shows many messages of the form: 'Someone reset channel A'. It also shows: "Driver 'st' needs updating, please use bus_type methods". Would trying any later software be likely to fix such problems, or is a complete failure to detect the tape-drive indicative of hardware failure while on-the-shelf ? Any suggestions welcome ... Regards, Howard Thomson -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
