Quantum DLT IV tape drive and PCI interface card compatibility

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

Previously JM <JandCMoore@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

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

On Mar 30, 10:47 pm, Arno Wagner <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> Previously JM <JandCMo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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

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
**** 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

"Arno Wagner" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:5763tlF2be12gU3@mid.individual.net
> Previously JM <JandCMoore@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Well, depends. It may be a BIOS limitation of the card. Would surprise
> me if it was a hardware limitation.

Doesn't matter, if the driver doesn't support ATAPI, your likely ****ed.

> If your OS supports hot-plugging on the specific SATA controller, try that.

Babblebot utterly clueless as always.

> It should bypass the card's BIOS.

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.

> May not yield a permenent solution, but if that works, you know at least
> that the problem is definitely the card's BIOS.
>
> Arno