SCSI Card recognition of Tape Drive

[fepeacock]

Hello

I have a Advansys ASC3030 SCSI card on a Linux Redhat 7.2 machine. It is connected to a Seagate CTT8000E-S tape drive. The SCSI card is recognized during booting including its parameters as verified by the "dmesg" command. The "/etc/fstab" file does not contain a record of the tape device.

I have powered the tape drive, switched it on and connected by a SCSI connector to the SCSI card. It has one LED above the tape but this does not appear to light up upon powering. I do not know whether it should.

Any help would be appreciated.

Frank

[fepeacock]

I failed to mention that the "dmesg" command contains no mention of a tape device.

[tashirosgt]

There is the old question of whether the tape drive needs a scsi terminator. Also does your kernel contain support for scsi devices?

[tashirosgt]

...and most plug-in cards give you some message like "hit CTRL-A to run scsis setup" when you boot. Do that and make sure the channel is enabled.

[fepeacock]

Hello

It has a terminator. There is no Scsi setup screen. When should this occur?

[tashirosgt]

It occurs during the first messages when the computer boots -when the screen is basically black and before the bootloader runs. If you don't see this then your card might not be working. I'm not familiar with your particular brand of card, but all cards that I have used offer such a setup. In Fedora, dmesg shows information about the scsi controller being detected. If it detects the tape drive then there will also be information about that. Dmesg should at least show the controller if the card is working.

[tashirosgt]

...and I'm talking about a message that gives an option to enter the scsi setup screen. The screen itself does not pop up automatically unless you request it, usually with CTRL-A.

[fepeacock]

Hello

The card is an Advansys ABP940-U/ABP960-U SCSI card. I have communicated with Initio support the company that rescued bankrupt Advansys 3 years ago but they claim that they have no information about this card and cannot help me.

[fepeacock]

Also, Initio support said that some cards do not have a BIOS and only a driver. They could not tell me whether this was the case for the card I have though.

[tashirosgt]

I can't resist asking why you are dealing with such old hardware and software.

See if any scsi devices at all are mentioned in dmesg.
I don't remember much about redhat 7.3. On the web, I found what Mandrake 10 dmesg reports for the card:

PCI: device 10cd 1300 ffff ffff is "Advanced System Products |APB940-U /
ABP960-U",driver is advansys
have to insmod advansys
needs advansys
succeeded advansys