SUMMARY: TLZ07 problem

From: Kresimir Kudumija <kkudumij_at_foi.hr>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 22:55:46 +0200 (MET DST)

I have been given nine very simillar answers - to shut down and
power cycle the whole system (not only to reboot the machine). Today
(holliday here) I shut down the machine but the problem is still there.
So, I have to replace drive and then :

"I had similar symptoms on a TLZ10 and had Compaq replace the drive. Then
we hooked the old one with the tape inside to a power supply from a PC and
power cycled the PC which caused the tape to be ejected." (thanx to Greg
Poole)

This time there wasn't no magic solution.

Thanks to :
Sheila Hollenbaugh, Stan Horwitz, Phil Baldwin, Jim Fitzmaurice, John
Farmer, Dr. Thomas P. Blinn, Timothy Baird, Jim Belonis, Alan

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Kresimir Kudumija
FOI Varazdin
Original post:
> Subject: TLZ07 problem
> Hello,
>  During the backup process (tar cvf /dev/nrmt0h ...) there was a problem
> with tape drive (I/O error). After that the drive was unreachable either
> with mt or scu. Both diodes (green and yellow) on the drive are
> consistently flashing and the drive won't react to the eject button.
> In the meantime, the machine was rebooted, but with same results
> How fo I get the tape out and test the working validity of the tape drive?
> On the same SCSI controller are two additional disks and a CD drive
> working without problems .

Received on Wed May 30 2001 - 20:57:17 NZST