- Quantum DLT IV tape drive and PCI interface card compatibility
- Posted by JM on March 30th, 2007
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.
Many thanks
Jonathan
- Posted by Arno Wagner on March 31st, 2007
Previously JM <JandCMoore@gmail.com> wrote:
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
- Posted by Folkert Rienstra on March 31st, 2007
"Arno Wagner" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:5763tlF2be12gU3@mid.individual.net
Doesn't matter, if the driver doesn't support ATAPI, your likely fucked.
Babblebot utterly clueless as always.
It's already bypassing the bios, babblebot.
That's his (perceived) problem: "card (ie BIOS) does not recognize drive".
Hotplugging won't make any difference.
- Posted by JM on March 31st, 2007
On Mar 30, 10:47 pm, Arno Wagner <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
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
