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loaner exabyte on hodge seems to work now
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jtkohl@MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 7 21:14:39 1994
From: jtkohl@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 94 21:13:20 EST
To: sipb-staff@MIT.EDU, sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
I spent some time fiddling with the tape drive configuration on the
loaner Exabyte 8200 drive on hodge. I looked over the configuration DIP
switches on the loaner, and set them to match the configuration of the
old dead drive. There are two sets of DIP switches: a bank of SCSI ID
switches, easily reachable from the back of the device, and a
well-hidden set of 8 switches on the second circuit board inside the
device. Using appropriate tools, you can flip those switches too.
The net result is that the tape drive seems to work now. I was able to
dump the root partition and restore (most of) it to the /var partition.
[it wouldn't all fit to do a full restore test].
So, I think we can probably use this drive for the time being to do a
backup or several.
==John
