[PLUG] SCSI Tape being offlined

Roderick A. Anderson raanders at acm.org
Tue Jan 10 00:00:04 UTC 2006


Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to help a friend sort out a problem with FC4, bru, and an 
>> EXABYTE tape changer.
>>
>> Oh yeah, Tolis Group is out of ideas also. He has done everything they
>> asked including installing a different SCSI host adapter for the tape
>> changer.
> 
> 
>   Ouch! Those guys are (at least, were) the very top of the line. One of
> their folks wrote the floppytape driver, and all of them were outstandingly
> helpful with my tape drive problems years ago. I dealt with BRU, Inc., then
> with the Tolis Group. Their techs contacted the Tandburg techs directly to
> resolve problems I had. That's service!

Typically they are.  The message I got was they determined it was a 
hardware or OS problem that needed to be fixed before they could go any 
further.

I think I'll get remote access to the system and see if I can getteh 
tape drive and changer working without using bru.

> 
>   Other than lending moral support, I can't do much. It turned out that the
> most recent problem I had was the SCSI driver not loading on a system
> re-boot. Got that fixed.
> 
>   The only other issue I had were data read errors that turned out to be a
> bad drive rather than the tapes. Once I upgraded from the slow, crappy 
> SLR-5
> to the SLR-60 I had no problems.

My favorite error was a loose ( as in it fell off when I held the drive 
vertically ) SCSI id jumper on a CD-RW.  One time the driver thought was 
device 5 the next 0.  I still have the jumper taped to my monitor at 
home to remind me!  Softer than a clue-stick for sure.


Rod
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