11 May
2007
11 May
'07
10:19 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 11 May 2007 at 6:07, Jules Richardson wrote:
Well all was not lost as it turns out - that first tape only contained 160MB
of data out of a possible x GB, so it's finished! I'm not getting anything out
of the other tape though - I can't even drag any raw data off it using dd,
which I would have thought should be possible. Either the tape's broken or the
drive just plain doesn't like it for some reason (this is the proper data
cartridge too - it was the backup to video tape that's read successfully)
Unfortunately the EXB-8500 drive seems to have
been modified firmware-wise as
part of the TTi setup; it refuses to talk direct to the HBA and doesn't even
show up in an inquiry at boot time. Looks like it'll *only* cooperate with the
TTi intercept board. Either that or it's utterly, utterly broken.
Bingo on the firmware, I think. We had a miserable time with it--
long blocks being one of the biggest issues. You might want to find someone with an 8510 with a
later firmware rev
and see if you can use that--or just try the generic Exabyte 8500
firmware and forget about TTi's little board.
Yep....
It looks like TTi went to a lot of trouble / expense to turn a reliable drive
into an unreliable one, all for the sake of a bit of front-panel status info :-(
cheers
J.