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I recently installed a SCSI card (Kofax 650) into my Linux workstation and have been racking my brains trying to get it to work.

I can see that the SCSI card is detected by my BIOS and my operating system, openSUSE tumbleweed, and it seems to have drivers installed and working however when I connected my SCSI device, a HP dds-4 tape drive, it was not detected by my OS or BIOS.

I checked that the jumpers on the bottom were set correctly and the SCSI id was set to 0 however it still wasn’t working. I tried different drives, with different cables and terminators however I am not detecting anything under Linux.

I tried to get to the same point under Windows 7 however I could not find any drivers and windows 10 decided to corrupt its page file and also not automatically install drivers, which it has for the SCSI card, so I could not get it wo work there. If anyone has any ideas about what could be wrong in my SCSI configuration or setup, please comment.

Dave M
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Luca
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The Kofax 650 is not a general SCSI card. It is for use with a specific type of scanner only. It is unlikely, although not entirely impossible, that it can be used with the tape drive.

The main problem is the termination of the bus. The Kofax card should terminate the bus (all the scanner-SCSI cards that I've seen do that). On the other side of the bus there must also be terminated.

Ljm Dullaart
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