The motherboard has been swapped out by NetApp and we've changed cables and terminators many times.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com
[mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of tkaczma@gryf.net
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 3:50 PM
Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: F720 & Sony SDX-510C

Sounds to me like a bum SCSI controller.

Tom

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Caldwell, Amy B. wrote:

>
> 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
>