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seagate tape drive only PIO mode?
Name: boojum Date: December 18, 2002 at 05:31:25 Pacific OS: w2k pro CPU/Ram: p3, 512
Comment:
I just got a Seagate Hornet travan tape drive (20GB) and it seems that I can't enable DMA mode with it. I'm wondering if atapi travan tape drives are meant to use DMA at all or only PIO. Curiously the tape drive doesn't show up in POST. The secondary slave device shows up as "None", but it's recognized fine in W2k (shows in Device Manager) and Redhat (which sees it on bootup). I haven't been able to test this unit yet with a tape because the tapes are on order (which may take a while because of the holiday). Anyone with experience with tape drives can tell me if PIO mode is normal for this type of device, and should it be showing up in POST? Thanks.
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