SCSI Tape Drive Not Recognized - "Termination" Problem?

From: Bill Polhemus (spamtest_at_polhemus.cc)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:52:43 GMT

DISCLAIMER: I am a TOTAL NEWBIE when it comes to SCSI!

I bought a "vintage" HP SureStore tape autoloader to use as a backup
device for my Red Hat 9 Linux server. I also purchased an IWILL
SIDE-2936UW-E SCSI card to use with it. The card is Advansys-based.

At bootup, the Red Hat system "sees" both the card and the
drive/autoloader system just fine. However, at some point the system then
"loses" them, as I cannot access that particular SCSI bus, and a rescan of the SCSI
subssystem doesn't turn them up.

I know that the IWILL card "autoterminates," but I have no idea about the drive
itself. It has two CENTRONICS ports on it, to one of which I have
connected the card, but the other just stands empty. Could it be that I
need to get some sort of "terminator" gadget to put on that port?

Thanks in advance for any help received.

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