HP6400 48AL DDS2 Specs and Manuals

[Marc Lippmann_1]

I saw Vincent sent someone the manuals to the HP6400 48AL, and I was wondering if he'd do me the same favor.

Thanks!!

marc@lippmann.com

[Brangwyn]

Could I add a "Me too" to that request as well please.

brangwyn@techkiwi.com

[David Ruska]

The DDS3 AL manual is still available online:
http://h200005.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/lpg28475/lpg28475.pdf

I don't know of any differences other than capacity.

[Brangwyn]

Thanks David.

I actually just this minute stumbled across the DAT24x6i manual online which appears to have been the next generation of this tape drive too.

Many thanks for your reply.

[Brangwyn]

Anyone with some experience with the HP6400/48AL and Windows able to point me in the right direction of getting the Autoloader recognised ?

HP Tape Tools only tells me theres a drive there as well and doesn't detect the Autoloader ID at all.

I have Autoloader options on the back set to 7 and the drive is contected to the external plug on an IBM ServRAID3 Card.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

[David Ruska]

> HP Tape Tools only tells me theres a drive there as well and doesn't detect the Autoloader ID at all.

You don't have SCSI LUN support enabled.

> I have Autoloader options on the back set to 7 and the drive is contected to the external plug on an IBM ServRAID3 Card.

1) You shouldn't be attaching it to a raid card. Use a dedicated SCSI card for the tape drive.

2) You need to have SCSI LUN support enabled. The Drive is at LUN 0 (which can be seen without LUN support enabed), whereas the autoloader portion will be at LUN 1.

If you can, use a dedicated SCSI card (e.g. 2940, 29190, etc)

[David Ruska]

>I actually just this minute stumbled across the DAT24x6i manual online

Yeah, I pointed to the unix-flavor manual. The windows manual is in a few pieces here:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual&locale=en_US&docIndexId=179911&taskId=101&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=42847