I have a 150 Meg QIC drive installed on our Alpha 2100 A500 running OSF/1 3.0.
I can fast forward and rewind fine. However, trying to write to the device
causes the console screen to go all colourful and the machine to reboot.
A crash dump is available on request.
The drive is being recognized by OSF/1 as an ARCHIVE VIPER 150. I am
currently going to get some friends to run the drive through some SCSI torture
tests, but want the device to be up and going as soon as possible. Digital
support cannot help as it is not a Digital device.
Has anyone seen any similar behaviour? Any theories on this behaviour?
% file /dev/nrmt2h
/dev/nrmt2h: character special (9/20483) SCSI #1 TZQIC tape #96 (SCSI ID #4) 10000_bpi
_ RZ28 (C) DEC 441C)
rz10 at scsi1 bus 1 target 2 lun 0
_(DEC RZ28 (C) DEC 441C)
rz11 at scsi1 bus 1 target 3 lun 0
_(DEC RZ28 (C) DEC D41C)
tz12 at scsi1 bus 1 target 4 lun 0 <- This is the critter
_(ARCHIVE VIPER 150 21247 -013)
tz13 at scsi1 bus 1 target 5 lun 0
_(DEC TZ87 (C) DEC 930A)
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