Summary: Tape drive

From: Ramanna Chetan (Chetan.Ramanna@nmg.sms.siemens.com)
Date: Tue Aug 18 1998 - 09:12:55 CDT


Thanks to Dave Mitchell, Stefan Voss, Vikas Arora, David Evans, Derek
Terveer, Bismark Espinoza, Stephen Harris, And David Evans. &others if I
have missed.

They all suggested pretty much the sam solution for the Orig question
shown Below..
The soulytion is found at the following web-site.
http://www.hp.com/tape/c_sun.html

Thanks.

Orig Question

I have SunOS 4.1.3 & SunOS 4.1.4
I have an HP tape drive.(Product C1533A)
I have hooked up this tape drive on the sun workstation at sci-id 4
When i do probe-scsi the machine sees the tape drive.

When i boot it up and do mt -f /dev/rst0 rew, i get the followin.

st0: Generic Drive, Vendor=<HP >
        Unknown type- assuming 0.25 inch catridge
        Variable record lenght I/O
/dev/rst0: no tape loaded or drive offline.

There is a tape in the drive. This message comes even after a while.
everytime it comes up with the same error message, that tape is offline
& not loaded.

What seems to be the problem
How do i make the HP tape drive work with the Sun workstation .
Thanks Will summarize.
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Chetan Ramanna
Siemens Medical Systems
Off (847) 304 7383
E-Mail chetan@sgsn01.nmg.sms.siemens.com



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