Re: [Osst-users] osst doesn't detect my drive

[Willem R. <os...@ri...>]

On 08/01/2004 04:32:57 PM, Michel Meyers wrote:
>=20
> > I've had my DI-30 running with and without DMA throughout osst
> > development,  and never seen detection problems caused that way.
>=20
> Hmm, as mentioned before, I've had this problem on another box too. The
> simple fact of doing 'hdparm -c1 -d1 -u1 /dev/hdb' was enough to make oss=
t
> not find the drive (even cancelling out these settings with
> 'hdparm -c0 -d0 -u0 /dev/hdb' wouldn't help). Not sure whether that would
> still be the case today, I simply left the drive untouched by hdparm afte=
r
> that.

I tried that hdparm command out of curiosity -- no effect on my machine.
I am running 2.6 kernels these days though.


> This is Debian testing so I guess I received some updates during my regul=
ar
> aptitude runs. As I said, I've located the problem now: The system someho=
w
> thinks ide-tape is the module to use for my drive and loads it, preventin=
g
> osst from working correctly. Unloading ide-tape and then manually reloadi=
ng
> ide-scsi and osst made it work.

Glad to hear it. Consider adding hdb=3Dide-scsi to your boot command line.

Willem Riede.