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- From: smithkl@cpva.saic.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: 8mm's on HP 9000
- Message-ID: <13943.2b63eb7f@cpva.saic.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 13:30:38 PST
- References: <22JAN199309371584@author.gsfc.nasa.gov> <7371538@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Science Applications Int'l Corp./San Diego
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- >
- > This sounds like a known problem where the later versions of Exabyte
- > firmware were changed to do immediate reporting on file marks when they
- > shouldn't. Perhaps you're writing file marks at the end of an archive,
- > and the rewind command sent to the drive fails because it's busy when
- > it shouldn't be.
- >
- > If the vendors from whom you bought the drives represented them as being
- > supported on certain systems, then you should work with them to get the
- > problem resolved. It should be possible with a firmware downgrade.
- >
- > Dave Kinsell
- > kinsell@hpfcmb.fc.hp.com
- >
-
- I don't think this is a backward compatible firmware issue. The drive that
- we have that is working (see previous posts) is a fairly current drive. The
- printout from the system tests performed at the factory show a date of:
- Fri Jun 19 09:35:24 PDT 1992. There doesn't seem to be a firmware version
- number or anything other than S/N 0920630###. The test output also shows
- SFO = LK06159210.5 Unit Type = DSU1-300b2 sn = 08042. This may be firmware
- related. Not sure.
- Kevin Smith
- smithkl@cpva.saic.com
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