Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:37:12 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chio trap with not-ready changer Message-ID: <20000301193712.D787@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003010103071.455-100000@sasami.jurai.net>; from winter@jurai.net on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:06:29AM -0500 References: <200003010502.VAA02846@mass.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003010103071.455-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:06:29AM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > Ok, after some interesting side trips I'm happily up and talking to > > our new (well, new-old) SpectraLogic STL-8000. There's only one catch > > so far - if the unit is still initialising itself when the 'ch' driver > > tries to talk to it, the latter fails in a messy fashion. It's easy > > enough to work around this by increasing the SCSI delay, but if you > > have 40 tapes in the unit and it's busy reading the barcodes off them > > all, this can be a loooong wait. 8) > > I think this is an artifact of the changer hardware being really stupid. > > I've got 2 different HP robots and a StorageWorks datawheel 8mm that I > have to let settle before I bring up the box they are attached to. StorageWorks datawheel? That would be ?? I'm not aware we ever supplied anything but DAT and DLT loaders from DEC/Compaq... -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands http://www.tcja.nl The FreeBSD Project: http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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