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тАО09-19-2008 07:03 AM
тАО09-19-2008 07:03 AM
Exabyte exb-85058HE-0000 tape drive issues
We are having an old VMS VAXcluster 4100A running on OpenVMS VAX V6.2. It is connected to an external tape drive, device type EXABYTE EXB-85058HE-0000. The tape drive has gone bad and we would like to replace it with a DEC TLZ10 or TLZ07 tape drive.
Please let me know how can I go about the same.
Thanks in advance,
Rahul.
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тАО09-19-2008 08:29 AM
тАО09-19-2008 08:29 AM
Re: Exabyte exb-85058HE-0000 tape drive issues
What's the mystery?
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тАО09-22-2008 12:22 PM
тАО09-22-2008 12:22 PM
Re: Exabyte exb-85058HE-0000 tape drive issues
NODE1(1):[XYZ]-> sho dev mk /full
Magtape NODE1$MKA100:, device type EXABYTE EXB-85058HE-0000, is online, record-
oriented device, file-oriented device, error logging is enabled.
Error count 6 Operations completed 74
Owner process "" Owner UIC [SYSTEM]
Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G:R,W
Reference count 0 Default buffer size 512
Density unknown Format Normal-11
Volume status: no-unload on dismount, beginning-of-tape, write-locked, odd parity.
This tape drive has gone bad on the system, and hence I would like to replace it with a TLZ10 DEC tape drive. If I remove the bad tape drive and connect a TLZ tape drive, would it auto detect the tape drive? Or do I need to make some changes?
Please comment
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тАО09-22-2008 12:55 PM
тАО09-22-2008 12:55 PM
Re: Exabyte exb-85058HE-0000 tape drive issues
It should if you re-boot. Otherwise, on a
VAX, a command like the following might do
the job:
MCR SYSGEN AUTOCONFIGURE ALL
> Or do I need to make some changes?
If the new drive has the same SCSI ID as the
old drive, and it's connected to the same
SCSI adapter, then it should have the same
device name (and you shouldn't even need to
do the SYSGEN AUTOCONFIGURE).
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тАО09-22-2008 04:19 PM
тАО09-22-2008 04:19 PM
Re: Exabyte exb-85058HE-0000 tape drive issues
(I'm not a big fan of breaking the SCSI chain on a running system. I prefer to shut down and power down. Parallel SCSI isn't -- with specific configuration exceptions -- usually considered a bus that's entirely reliable with hot-plugging. I know I wouldn't hot-plug it with a production server, assuming I didn't have a way to quiesce the SCSI bus.)
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тАО09-23-2008 04:23 AM
тАО09-23-2008 04:23 AM
Re: Exabyte exb-85058HE-0000 tape drive issues
Spare yourself the pain and do a planned shutdown. As well, you'll get a good idea from a >>> SHOW DEVICE that you might have a working drive.
Cheers,
Art
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тАО09-23-2008 06:12 AM
тАО09-23-2008 06:12 AM
Re: Exabyte exb-85058HE-0000 tape drive issues
This means, all Your backup/archive tapes on 8mm will be unusable from now on!
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тАО09-23-2008 10:52 AM
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Re: Exabyte exb-85058HE-0000 tape drive issues
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тАО09-23-2008 01:51 PM
тАО09-23-2008 01:51 PM
Re: Exabyte exb-85058HE-0000 tape drive issues
Thanks for your guidance.
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тАО09-23-2008 01:56 PM
тАО09-23-2008 01:56 PM
Re: Exabyte exb-85058HE-0000 tape drive issues
Cheers,
Art