| Title: | Alpha Developer Support |
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Company Name : Cibar Inc.
Contact Name : Tim Mayar (sp?)
Phone : (719) 260-6700
Fax :
Email :
Date/Time in : 9-APR-1997 17:36
Originally entered by : SWIERKOWSKI
SPE center : PAG
Category : OpenVMS
OS Version : V6.2
System H/W : DEC 3000 - Model 400
Brief Description of Problem:
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Is having trouble talking to an Exabyte drive. His firmware is way out of
rev, suggested he upgrade this first to at least whatever is on the V3.7
Firmware Update Utility CD-ROM since the last thing he remembers loading came
off the V3.3 CD. Also gave him a pointer to the V3.9 stuff on the web, awaiting
feedback...
Tony Swierkowski
Digital Equipment Corporation
Software Partner Engineering
Palo Alto, California
(415) 617-3601
"[email protected]"
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| 3467.1 | Call closed, need CSC for microcode fixes... | AMCUCS::SWIERKOWSKI | Quot homines tot sententiae | Fri Apr 11 1997 13:36 | 25 |
Greetings! I just spoke with Tim and they will attempt to upgrade their system firmware this weekend. I also had a chance to research this a bit in COMETS and there has been lots of activity re: Exabyte tape drives (assorted models). In a nutshell something (as of of OpenVMS V6.1) changed in the way the operating system deals with tape drives. Specifically the drive sets the EOM bit at BOT and OpenVMS 6.1 (VAX and Alpha) no longer allows this. This explains why the tape drive (both a real old unit and a relatively new unit) work fine on a little VAX 400 - VLC still running OpenVMS V5.5-2, but fails when hooked up to his AlphaStation. Blank tapes appear to hang during "$ INIT tape_dev: label" command, but pre-INIT'ed tapes work fine. In any event, this requires new tape drive microcode (and possibly changing switch setting on the tape depending on make/model). I've advised Tim to go ahead and upgrade his console firmware anyway, since they are down-rev, but to pursue the Exabyte microcode rev problem through the CSC, call closed... Tony Swierkowski Digital Equipment Corporation Software Partner Engineering Palo Alto, California (415) 617-3601 "[email protected]" | |||||