14 Jan
2004
14 Jan
'04
7:51 p.m.
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 "Fred N. van Kempen" <waltje(a)pdp11.nl> wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I just decided to test a TLZ06 on my system, and it don't want to
work. I normally play with an Exabyte 8200, and that works just fine.
(This on a 11/84 with a CMD controller)
So it might be as some suggested, that the DDS drives aren't too happy.
I tried with a DDS2 tape in it, if that matters. The system sees the
drive, and I can mount and dismount tapes, and even eject them. Reading or
writing gives errors, though.
I have not verified the drive on any other system either, so there are
several possible problems here, but I thought I'd report what I can
anyhow.
Johnny
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Interesting.... BTW, the DDS1 drive I'm
using is a DEC TLZ06. Any idea if
Hmm, wasnt the TLZ06 a DDS2 drive? At any rate,
yeah, this drive
might very well have this "problem" .. I had it with many DDS
drives, might even have been a TLZ in that stack... I *do* know
I tested it with a TLZ04.
this might also be a problem with an Exabyte 8500
tape drive? It would be
Cant remember... only had a 8200 at the time, and cant
remember the
results of that..