| Title: | Optical Products |
| Moderator: | TAPE::SENEKER |
| Created: | Wed May 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 841 |
| Total number of notes: | 3218 |
With reference to the previous note, (800.*) does anyone out there have
any experience of running a SONY WDA610 (AKA DEC RV65) with
OSMS/Laserstar on a VAX system?
If so could you please publish any HW setup/OSMS-config peculiarities
which are required to get it to work. Also any other experiences (good,
bad, or just plain amusing!)
For instance, when configuring SCSI ID's to WDA devices, how does
one specify LUN's? Is there one for each drive plus the A/C (0,1,2) or is
there one for the A/C and one for both drives (0,1., or 1,2)?
Should OSMS configure multiple JBA devices? The Inquiry command
returns "Optical Disk" for the A/C SCSI ID suggesting that it thinks it's
one drive. How does OSMS relate slot numbers to JBA devices? I tried to
send SCSI commands to the A/C using SCSIUTIL but mostly got "illegal
command". I suspect that the diagnostic sub-command "READ INTERNAL
STATUS" would return the shelf status, but it's in diagnostic mode!
Error analysis is difficult, as the Juke returns only 12 bytes of
sense data, and has only a limited repetoire of error codes for the
check byte.
Any/all information gratefully recieved!!
Dave Clark
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| 801.1 | Two ideas | TAPE::SENEKER | Head banging causes brain mush | Thu Mar 06 1997 14:14 | 13 |
Dave,
Tidbit one... Use the "$ SCSI MAP/SONY_600" command to see the
internal map information.
Tidbit two... Using a OSMS/LaserStar 3.3-1 VAX kit select the
Sony 610 option. You may need to specific "SPECIAL" when initally
asked which jukebox you want to get a list that includes the
Sony jukeboxes.
More later.
Rob
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| 801.2 | Sony 610 command specifics | TAPE::SENEKER | Head banging causes brain mush | Tue Mar 11 1997 12:09 | 44 |
I did a 3.3 install for a Sony 610 to see how the questions were
asked and this is what memories it brought back.
The Sony 610 should be setup so it responds to a single SCSI target
and 8 logical units such as WDB100, WDB101, WDB102 ... WDB107.
Use a LaserStar installation or the "SPECIAL" option for OSMS
installations to get the Sony 610 to show up in the jukebox list.
Specific the same SCSI target address for three devices, two drives
and one robot, make the logical unit number different for each, for
example 0, 1, 2.
An example of the JKCONFIG INSTALL command for a Sony 610 is:
$ JKCONFIG INSTALL JBA /SLOTS=50 /DRIVE=(WDB101,WDB102,WDB100) -
/CACHE=SYS$SYSTEM: /SIZE=256 /ROBOT_FLAG=-3 /MINSWAP=15 /QUEUE_ENABLE
Note: the value of ROBOT_FLAG = -3. This is a special value so
LaserStar will setup the jukebox data structures so that the Sony
jukebox gets controlled properly.
The SONY jukebox uses different SCSI commands to do things such as
eject disks from drives (^xC0), Sony set (^xD6), Sony release (^xD7),
send map (^x1D), read map (^x1C). The set and release command are used
with moving cartridges to/from slots/drives.
The LaserStar drivers have special checks for errors during disk
spinups, Sony specific media errors, and Sony specific "no disk in
drive" errors.
The LaserStar mode select settings for a SONY are:
Mode Select: Set EBC (Enable Blank check for writing)
Set EVRF (Enable the verify function for WRITE commands)
Set EALT (Enable alternations during write)
Set DTRE (Disable transfer on Read Error) - stop on
unreadable block
I believe that a Sony 610 jukebox and drives can be controlled from a
single SCSI address but LaserStar choose to use seperate addresses to
allow the hardware to be viewed more like other SCSI jukeboxes.
Rob
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