IBM 9348 9-track tape drive

[Eric Smith]

Sellam wrote:
> I set it up, powered it up, it came up to ready, so far so good.  I
> inserted a tape and hit load and it worked like a champ.  So last night I
> was attempting the next phase which was hooking it to a PC.  The Adaptec
> controller didn't see it on the SCSI chain.

You were using an Adaptec HVD (differential) SCSI controller, I hope?
Standard single-ended and LVD (low voltage differential) controllers
won't work with an HVD drive like the 9348, unless you use one of the
fairly rare SE/HVD adapters.

Eric