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From: admiral@m-5.Sun.COM (Michael Limprecht. To everyone but IR "admiral@m-5")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Tape drive on 2090a, help needed.
Summary: shouldn't need to reboot
Keywords: TAPE SCSI BTN 2090A
Message-ID: <15569@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 20 Jun 91 22:15:30 GMT
References: <15028@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com>
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In article <15028@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com>, teroach!dbk@phx.mcd.mot.com (Dave Kinzer) writes:
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> Begin old message:
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> Help!!!  :^)
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>    I am trying to get BTN tape to work on my system.  The system 
> will hang (completely) when I try to mount the TAPE: device, requiring
> three finger salute to recover.  No LED Flashing or GURU.
> 
I get the same results when I've tried it. I haven't found out
what the problem is but you shouldn't have to reboot. If you have your
tape drive (and it's controller) on a separate power supply you should
be able to just turn off the tape drive. This will reset the scsi bus
and release the mount. No reboot. It works on mine.

Now if I can figure out why mine hangs.

Mick


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