ajp2o@crocus.medicine.rochester.edu (Anthony J. Persechini) (06/13/91)
O.K. I looked in the system administrator's guide under "disk and cartridge
tape devices" and find no discussion of cartridge tape devices. So
perhaps some kind soul can give me a hand. I recently installed
a new WREN 380 meg disk, which seemed to want to be in the
bottom slot of my 4D20G (under 3.3.1). This necessitated moving the tape drive
to the upper one. I now cannot figure out how to get it working.
It appears that the machine cannot find it; shouldn't it
have found it automatically on boot up? Perhaps the problem
is the way the tape drive is jumpered. Any suggestions, especially
from those who have dealt with this problem would be
appreciated greatly.
--
Anthony Persechini Dept. of Physiology, Box 642
Assistant Professor School of Medicine
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> University of Rochester
ajp2o@crocus.medicine.rochester.edu Rochester, NY 14642olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) (06/14/91)
In <1991Jun13.102527@crocus.medicine.rochester.edu> ajp2o@crocus.medicine.rochester.edu (Anthony J. Persechini) writes: | O.K. I looked in the system administrator's guide under "disk and cartridge | tape devices" and find no discussion of cartridge tape devices. So | perhaps some kind soul can give me a hand. I recently installed | a new WREN 380 meg disk, which seemed to want to be in the | bottom slot of my 4D20G (under 3.3.1). This necessitated moving the tape drive | to the upper one. I now cannot figure out how to get it working. | It appears that the machine cannot find it; shouldn't it | have found it automatically on boot up? Perhaps the problem | is the way the tape drive is jumpered. Any suggestions, especially | from those who have dealt with this problem would be | appreciated greatly. This almost certainly means that you didn't get the drive all the way seated. Shut the system down, power it off, pop the drive back out, and then push it in until you get a good solid click. You can then power up, press ESC to go to maintainence mode, and them from the >> prom prompt (after pressing 5), you can type 'hinv'. You should see all the scsi devices listed. If not, either something isn't seated, or somehow you have more than one device at the same scsi ID. The tape drive is slow to respond on the scsi bus compared to many disks, so sometimes you don't even see errors when a disk and tape have the same ID. -- Dave Olson Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.