Hi,
I just attached two tape drives to my Alphastation 500/400 running DU V4.0,
- 8mm drive: Exabyte 8500 (shows up as (EXABYTE EXB-8500-85Qanx0 0428))
- 4mm drive: HP35480A (HP HP35480A 1009)
Neither works: they generate I/O error messages and the Exabyte also
generates a CAM SCSI error message (HARDWARE ERROR) when I try to access
them. I am wondering if I need new/modified entries in the ddr.dbase
file for these devices. One possible clue is that scu reports:
Warning: Inquiry (EXB-8500-85Qanx0) and system (EXB-8500) device names
are different.
Any ideas, hints, or experience with these devices?
Jon Holtzman
mt status returns for Exabyte:
DEVIOGET ELEMENT CONTENTS
---------------- --------
category DEV_TAPE
bus DEV_SCSI
interface SCSI
device EXB-8500
adpt_num 0
nexus_num 0
bus_num 0
ctlr_num 0
slave_num 1
dev_name tz
unit_num 1
soft_count 0
hard_count 2
stat 1
DEV_BOM
category_stat 40000
DEV_54000_BPI
DEVGETINFO ELEMENT CONTENTS
------------------ --------
media_status 0x1
BOM
unit_status 0x121
Ready 2_FM_Close Rewind Buffered
record_size 0
density (current) 54000 BPI
density (on write) 45434 BPI
Filemark Cnt <Not Valid>
Record Cnt <Not Valid>
Class 5 - 8MM
MTIOCGET ELEMENT CONTENTS
---------------- --------
mt_type MT_ISSCSI
mt_dsreg 0
mt_erreg 0
mt_resid 0
Received on Wed Apr 01 1998 - 23:39:56 NZST