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Re: Problems switching between DDS tapes of different length
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Popov)
Fri Jul 18 16:23:00 1997
To: Eckard Koch <czkec@ocag.ch>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "17 Jul 1997 13:55:23 +0200."
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 13:17:01 -0700
From: Pete Popov <pete@jones.asd.sel.sony.com>
> I am stuck with a problem related to a HP Surestore 12000e
> tape drive and DDS tapes of 90m and 120m length.
>
> In principle the drive should support DDS1 and DDS2 tape and
> this has been working for some time. But recently I am getting
> problems to access data on an 90m if I have been using 120m tapes in
> between. After power cycling the tape drive I am again able to read
> data from 90m tapes until the next 120m tape has been loaded.
What exactly happens when you try to read 90m tapes? Does the
drive report some type of Check Condition? If so, what's the
sense data? It sounds like you have both, 90m and 120m tapes
in the autoloader magazine, correct? What's the test command
sequence?
Pete
