Time for my first backup, how do I install a DDS drive??
Anthony Atkielski
for a procedure that would allow me to install my spare DDS drive on the system,
and I haven't found out how to do it, so I'll ask here.
I have just attached an HP 6000e external DDS drive (C1533A) as the one and only
device on an Adaptec 2930W SCSI adapter that was already present when I
installed FreeBSD (although it had nothing attached to it at the time). FreeBSD
appears to be aware of the controller, but not of the drive. The SCSI BIOS on
the adapter card sees the tape drive and recognizes it. All I have to do, it
seems, is figure out how to persuade FreeBSD to see this drive. I assume I have
to install a driver or enable something, but how? I didn't see any sign of a
sa0 or nsa0 device in the kernel configuration file. What do I have to change
or add?
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Joerg Wunsch
> I didn't see any sign of a sa0 or nsa0 device in the kernel
> configuration file. What do I have to change or add?
Look into /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC:
# SCSI peripherals
device scbus # SCSI bus (required)
device da # Direct Access (disks)
device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
device cd # CD
device pass # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)
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Jim Bryant
> "Anthony Atkielski" <ant...@freebie.atkielski.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I didn't see any sign of a sa0 or nsa0 device in the kernel
>>configuration file. What do I have to change or add?
>>
>
> Look into /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC:
>
> # SCSI peripherals
> device scbus # SCSI bus (required)
> device da # Direct Access (disks)
> device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> device cd # CD
> device pass # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)
>
>
You may also want to dig over at hp.com for a firmware upgrade, if you can't find it there, I have a copy of the firmware upgrade
program, and current firmware. The program just flashes the drive's firmware eeprom.
Once you add the above lines and recompile the kernel, you should get a message to the effect of [note latest firmware date of 9608]:
sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
sa0: <HP C1533A 9608> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8)
Mine seems to work well, as a matter of fact, bru is chugging along right now.
jim
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