Hi all,
Thanks to the following who responded to my posting:
"Iain.S.Bruce" <isb2_at_redeyes.york.ac.uk>
"Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-881-0646" <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
Selden E Ball Jr <SEB_at_LNS62.LNS.CORNELL.EDU>
"keith chiles" <kchiles_at_hccsf.com>
wier_at_bobcat.etsu.edu (Bob Wier)
Hellebo Knut <bgk1142_at_bggfu2.nho.hydro.com>
>> I have a QIC-150 external tape unit that does not respond no more.
>>
>> It worked fine untill I done something unadvertantly. The tape unit was set
>> with SCSI ID=4, i recently got a RZ28 disk to fit into a StorageWorks
>> box which I plugged into the last slot in the StorageWorks box. At this point
>> I did not check the SCSI ID for the slot which happened to be 4. After
>> booting up, the system could see the RZ28 disk as ID=4. Comming to use the
>> QIC-150 tape, a week later it did'nt work - setting the SCSI-ID to 5 or 6 it
>> fails to work anymore ( the system does not pick it up using 'show device' ).
>>
>> Could this of damaged the QIC-150 controller somehow ?
>>
>> At the time this happened I also had a TLZ07 dat tape set to SCSI-ID=5, it
>> was not affected and continues to work fine.
>>
>> Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Most responces suggested to check the /dev files and perform a doconfig. None
of this worked as the SCSI-ID of the QIC-150 tape unit was permantly set to
ID=4, the RZ28 hard disk continued to use ID=4, as the tape unit was last on
the scsi chain it was never seen by 'show device'.
The problem was that the SCSI-ID connector switch was connected to the
controller board the wrong way round, so what ever setting you chose it still
used ID=4. Fixing this all was well.
It was just my luck all things worked fine when I first installed the tape
unit and chose the SCSI-ID=4.
Thanks to all who responded..
Joe
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