We are just in the process of replacing our two F230s with three F740s and it's all going well apart from the DLT drives. We bought two Quantum DLT7000 differential SCSI drives, but we can't get them to work.
On startup the 740 hangs for a long time just after the memory test and the "Complete" message. We've tried each drive on two 740s and they both act the same. We used the cable and terminator supplied with drives. The 740s hang even with the drive powered off.
We've tried 5.2.2P1 and 5.3.2. Booting the diagnostic disk and running the scsi disgnostic tends to report SCSI errors of various types, eg "SCSI bus reset failed".
Any ideas anyone? Could it be that these drives are not really differential - how could we tell?
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