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| Brian Greenberg 2004-05-30, 11:11 am |
| I recently moved our L40 from one office to an other and somewhere
along the line, the STK L40 didn't agree with the move and decided
that it wasn't going to communicate with one of the DLT7000 drives in
the library.
The library as a whole seems to be working fine and of the two DLT7000
drives in it, one works fine but the other (Drive 1) does not.
From the moment of power on, the one green light on the bottom front
right side panel is solid green and all the amber lights on the left
side of the front panel flash amber together. The library itself says
that it "Not Communicate" with the drive.
I tried to remove the drive entirely to verify it wasn't a termination
issue on the bus. I moved the drive to another bay to verify it
wasn't the bay's connectors that were messed up. It seems to be the
drive itself. I took it out and visually inspected it, made sure all
the connections looked connected a blew some air through it but still,
no communication.
The library's web interface by STK shows the library in fine shape but
the status of the drive in question is that the SCSI ID is invalid and
that it's not communicating. I don't know how to change the SCSI ID,
if need be.
Has any one seen this before or have suggestions on where to go from
here?
Brian Greenberg
Karma Systems, Inc.
bjg@acm.org
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| Rene Koehnen-Wiesemes 2004-05-30, 11:11 am |
| Guess this is a simple "leader-tape-problem" inside the
drive, what means that the drive has completly rewounded
its "leader-tape" - call STK support to fix it or change
the drive.
And don't forget to check all of your tapes for bad ones.
Ask STK support for guidance if they admit a leader-tape
problem at your drive.
Rene
Brian Greenberg wrote:
> I recently moved our L40 from one office to an other and somewhere
> along the line, the STK L40 didn't agree with the move and decided
> that it wasn't going to communicate with one of the DLT7000 drives in
> the library.
>
> The library as a whole seems to be working fine and of the two DLT7000
> drives in it, one works fine but the other (Drive 1) does not.
>
> From the moment of power on, the one green light on the bottom front
> right side panel is solid green and all the amber lights on the left
> side of the front panel flash amber together. The library itself says
> that it "Not Communicate" with the drive.
>
> I tried to remove the drive entirely to verify it wasn't a termination
> issue on the bus. I moved the drive to another bay to verify it
> wasn't the bay's connectors that were messed up. It seems to be the
> drive itself. I took it out and visually inspected it, made sure all
> the connections looked connected a blew some air through it but still,
> no communication.
>
> The library's web interface by STK shows the library in fine shape but
> the status of the drive in question is that the SCSI ID is invalid and
> that it's not communicating. I don't know how to change the SCSI ID,
> if need be.
>
> Has any one seen this before or have suggestions on where to go from
> here?
>
> Brian Greenberg
> Karma Systems, Inc.
> bjg@acm.org
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