Tape swap gone bad

[BR796391]

I had a problem with a 20/40 DAT on a ML370. I received a replacement and proceeded to replace the drive. I unscrewed the old tape and disconnected the SCSI and power, and put the new one in place. Everything looked good. I booted up the server, and the drive showed up offline. I powered down, and then took the drive back out, and made sure all the jumper settings were the same. I put it back in, and I had the same problem. Since I am using Windows 2000 Server, I looked in the Removable Storage MMC, and it showed that the drive was offline. Well, I Figured it was looking for the old drive. So, I then proceeded to delete the instance of the 20/40 drive, thinking that when I reboot or restart the service it would see the new drive. No luck. Is it a faulty drive or faulty administrator?

[Lewis Finch]

Bryan, The first place to start would be at the base hardware level. Check for possible bent pins and see if the drive is shown during POST.

[BR796391]

I forgot this part, When the server boots up, there are no SCSI devices found. This led me to believe that there was something wrong with the drive. However, I thought maybe this was a SCSI ID problem. I checked the jumpers and although they are identical to the previous it does have jumpers on SCSI ID 0 and SCSI ID 1.

[Lewis Finch]

Bryan, my first repy still stands. see if the drive is seen on POST and in the SCSI BIOS. If it's not there you may have bent pins or a defective drive.