[comp.periphs.scsi] Any information on the Archive 2060S tape drive?

mt@cleo.cs.wisc.edu (Manolis Tsangaris) (10/25/90)

I am trying to use an Archive 2060S scsi tape drive (DC600) on a
MAC II. A standard backup software (Retrospect 1.1.2) does not
seem to recognize the drive, eventhough their SCSI-scan program finds it
and congratulates me for choosing the "excellent drive" :-)
When I go to the devices menu of retrospect however I get nothing.
The drive correctly responds to the Rezero Unit command and to the request
sense commands. I do not know what other commands to try. It does not
seem to like read/write or seek.

Does anyone have experience with this drive? It has a set of 
jumpers and I have no idea how to set them. I managed to set the 
address jumpers, but I have no clue for the rest (labelled as:
CF0/CF1/CF2 and PEN/DIAG).

Any information (even the phone # of Archive) will be greatly appreciated!

--mt (Manolis Tsangaris)
--mt

billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) (10/31/90)

In article <11570@spool.cs.wisc.edu> mt@cleo.cs.wisc.edu (Manolis Tsangaris) writes:
:I am trying to use an Archive 2060S scsi tape drive (DC600) on a
:MAC II. A standard backup software (Retrospect 1.1.2) does not
:seem to recognize the drive, eventhough their SCSI-scan program finds it
:and congratulates me for choosing the "excellent drive" :-)
:When I go to the devices menu of retrospect however I get nothing.
:The drive correctly responds to the Rezero Unit command and to the request
:sense commands. I do not know what other commands to try. It does not
:seem to like read/write or seek.
:
:Does anyone have experience with this drive? It has a set of 
:jumpers and I have no idea how to set them. I managed to set the 
:address jumpers, but I have no clue for the rest (labelled as:
:CF0/CF1/CF2 and PEN/DIAG).

	I don't have experience with the 2060S specifically, but it's real
similar to the 2150S. The CF0-2 jumpers set buffer disconnect size. The 
default is to have CF0 and CF2 installed. Here's a table:

Buffer Size:	2K	4K	6K	8K	12K	16K	24K	32K
Jumper:     	===	===	===	===	===	===	===	===
CF2        					 X	 X	 X	 X
CF1         			 X	 X			 X	 X
CF0         		 X		 X		 X		 X

PEN is Parity Enable, DIAG is Diagnostic.

:Any information (even the phone # of Archive) will be greatly appreciated!
:
:--mt (Manolis Tsangaris)
:--mt


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