Hi Amy, I suspect someone has already told you this, so forgive me if this is a repeat. But have you been told that the AIT 2 drive needs to emulate an AIT 1 drive in order to work? In the next major release of software the AIT 2 will be supported, but right the only way it will work is for it to pretend to be an AIT1. Do 'mt -f rst0a status' - this will create the file /etc/cloned_tapes Edit the cloned_tapes file to map the product ID, ie. by adding a line that says something like: SONY SDX-510C EMULATES SONY SDX-500 (I'm not sure about this syntex, because I'm not sure the exact inquiry string that the drive returns, so please check with netapp support) then: Do 'mt -f rst0a status' again. Now 'sysconfig -t' should list the appropriate device files, and it should work because now the filer recognizes what kind of device this is.
-----Original Message----- From: Caldwell, Amy B. [mailto:amy@tamu.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 9:52 AM To: Nick Hilliard Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: F720 & Sony SDX-510C
This is supposedly the third tape drive from our vendor (but at least the second I'm sure about) and we have tried internal and external termination (with more than one external terminator). We have sent the drive back to the vendor multiple times and they have tested it and sent it back with us getting the same results. The current drive was sent to us directly from a NetApp engineer (she got it from our vendor) who tested it successfully on a F760. We don't have another system we could test it on ourselves.
BTW, we're running Data ONTAP 5.3.4R3.
Amy
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick@iol.ie] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 11:41 AM To: Caldwell, Amy B. Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: F720 & Sony SDX-510C
Any ideas or help would be sincerely appreciated.
Is the tape unit fried? Have you tested it to make sure that it works on other systems, and that the scsi connection is correctly terminated.
Nick