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Conference star::wizards

Title:	"ASK THE WIZARDS"

Moderator:	QUARK::LIONEL

Created:	Mon Oct 30 1995
Last Modified:	Mon May 12 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1857
Total number of notes:	3728

1572.0. "Open: firmware availability?" by STAR::JKEENAN () Tue Feb 11 1997 08:48

Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 14:54:10 -0500
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
From: "VMS001::WWW"@vms001.das-x.dec.com (23-Jan-1997 1454)
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Ask the Wizard: '[email protected]'

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Name: Rick Leiber
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CPU Architecture: Alpha
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Questions: 

Is there firmware available that will recognize and
support a  SCSI Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive on the
Alpha2100?

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1572.1 Device Not Supported On OpenVMS XDELTA::HOFFMAN Steve, OpenVMS Engineering Tue Feb 11 1997 15:00 21

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1572.1	Device Not Supported On OpenVMS	XDELTA::HOFFMAN	Steve, OpenVMS Engineering	`Tue Feb 11 1997 15:00`	21
	:Is there firmware available that will recognize and :support a SCSI Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive on the :Alpha2100? There is no support for the Exabyte EXB-8200 drive from Digital. You will need to contact Exabyte support for the latest version of firmware for the EXB-8200, and you will need to contact the Digital Customer Support Center for an as-yet-unreleased patch for MKDRIVER that is presently being tested. (Some problems were recently found with operations with older third-party SCSI-1 tape drives.) I would recommend moving to a newer tape drive, as the EXB-8200 is an old and slow and narrow SCSI-1 device, and per comments I have received from other customers, is no longer being actively supported by Exabyte. I'd recommend a TLZ (DAT/DDS) or TZK (DLT) series tape drive. Digital also now offers 8mm drives, if you need to continue to provide access to an existing 8mm tape library.

:Is there firmware available that will recognize and
:support a  SCSI Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive on the
:Alpha2100?

   There is no support for the Exabyte EXB-8200 drive from Digital.

   You will need to contact Exabyte support for the latest version of
   firmware for the EXB-8200, and you will need to contact the Digital
   Customer Support Center for an as-yet-unreleased patch for MKDRIVER
   that is presently being tested.  (Some problems were recently found
   with operations with older third-party SCSI-1 tape drives.)

   I would recommend moving to a newer tape drive, as the EXB-8200 is
   an old and slow and narrow SCSI-1 device, and per comments I have
   received from other customers, is no longer being actively supported
   by Exabyte.

   I'd recommend a TLZ (DAT/DDS) or TZK (DLT) series tape drive.  Digital
   also now offers 8mm drives, if you need to continue to provide access
   to an existing 8mm tape library.