MSL5000 drive replacement

[Matt Pilgrim_1]

I have an MSL5000, more precisely a MSL5030. I have removed a sdlt drive from the unit and replaced it with a ultrium 1 loader drive.
I cannot get the loader to communicate with the drive although I have proved that both loader and drive are ok.
I think I might need a service code to force a settings override? The two should be compatible it just seems settings need to be changed.

Has anyone got any suggestions?

[Kurt Beyers.]

Matt,

Upgrade the firmware of both the drive and library to the latest version.

It might be that your current library firmware does not support Ultrium drives yet.

best regards,
Kurt

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
????
MSL with sdlt drives is 5026, with Ultrium drives is 5030. Magasines is different. I don't belive mixing drives/magasines will work.

[Matt Pilgrim_1]

Kurt,

Thanks for the reply.
The old drive was faulty so I can't put it back in. With the ultrium drive in I'm unable to perform a f/w upgrade using l&tt as it won't communicate and is unable to read any data from the library

regards

matt

[Mark Poeschl_2]

Leif is right - the MSL5026 and MSL5030 ARE NOT interchangeable. One takes SDLT drives and cartridges and the other Ultrium. You can't change flavors of tape drives without changing out the whole library.