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Date:      Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:02:00 +0100 (CET)
From:      Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
To:        smp@csn.net
Cc:        "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: chio trap with not-ready changer
Message-ID:  <200003041202.NAA65118@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
In-Reply-To: <200003011637.JAA10612@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003010800190.54680-100000@earth.fxp>

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In article <200003011637.JAA10612@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> you write:
>> 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 
>> ...
>> I used to service/support these beasts (as a VAR) and have found that they
>> will cause various OS's (NT/Netware/SCO) to hang if you don't let them
>> fully initialize before booting...very poor firmware 
>> design.  Unfortunately, we never found a reasonable work-around other than
>> to wait.
>> 
>> -----
>> Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
>
>So our sony sdt9000 just died (after several years of hard service) and I
>figured I would pop for a sony tsl-s9000 changer, expecting it would "just
>work".  With all this discussion of funky changers, I decided I should ask,
>does anyone successfully use the sony tsl changer with either chio or amanda?

Well i think i could try hooking up our sony dds3 to a bsd box to check
chio behaviour... (its on a nt box cause amanda can't dump filesystems
larger than one tape, so we still have to do those with agent.be. :( )

>Any other DDS changers that someone recommends (lower end of budget)?

 The hp 6-slot dds2 drive seems to have no problems with chio (and amanda
with a small patch), as long as you walk to the box and push front panel
buttons when you need to run the cleaning tape.  (see other thread.  but
i haven't yet given up hope that that can't be fixed...)

 HTH,
-- 
Juergen Lock <nox.foo@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
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