Quantum DLT IV tape drive and PCI interface card compatibility

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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 said:
Anyone know why the SATA/150 PCI card that came with a Maxtor SATA
drive won't recognize my SATA tape drive?
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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.
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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
 
Arno Wagner said:
Well, depends. It may be a BIOS limitation of the card. Would surprise
me if it was a hardware limitation.
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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.
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Babblebot utterly clueless as always.
It should bypass the card's BIOS.
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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.
 
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
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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
 
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