2 Jun
2000
2 Jun
'00
10:26 a.m.
Hello,
Finally got a tape for this thing and it is DOA -- doesn't seem to do
anything. The lower green LED on the tape drive flashes slow then fast.
Interesting thing though -- when I interrogated the SCSI buss, it came back
as a DEC RZ24L. thought you DEC fans might know what that is, and if it is
a proprietary model that I can't use on my Amiga.
Kind regards
--
Gary Hildebrand
ghldbrd(a)ccp.com
2 Jun
2 Jun
5:06 a.m.
Hello,
Finally got a tape for this thing and it is DOA -- doesn't seem to do
anything. The lower green LED on the tape drive flashes slow then fast.
Interesting thing though -- when I interrogated the SCSI buss, it came back
as a DEC RZ24L. thought you DEC fans might know what that is, and if it is
a proprietary model that I can't use on my Amiga.
Kind regards
--
Gary Hildebrand
ghldbrd(a)ccp.com
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5:08 a.m.
Hello,
Finally got a tape for this thing and it is DOA -- doesn't seem to do
anything. The lower green LED on the tape drive flashes slow then fast.
Interesting thing though -- when I interrogated the SCSI buss, it came back
as a DEC RZ24L. thought you DEC fans might know what that is, and if it is
a proprietary model that I can't use on my Amiga.
Well, I've used a Exabyte 8500 on my Amiga 3000, so I would think a 8505XL
should work. However, a RZ24L is a low profile 245MB DEC Hard Drive, not a
Tape Drive! That's one confused sounding system!
Zane
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6:27 a.m.
At 04:26 PM 6/2/00 -0600, you wrote:
Interesting thing though -- when I interrogated the
SCSI buss, it came back
as a DEC RZ24L. thought you DEC fans might know what that is, and if it is
a proprietary model that I can't use on my Amiga.
This leads to only a couple of possible conclusions:
1) you have a hard disk and the tape drive with the same SCSI ID
the disk answered the INQUIRY command, the tape is confused because
it keeps getting disk type commands.
2) Someone has told the tape drive it is a disk because they were
originally
trying to whack the code pages of an RZ24L to make it talk 512
byte (vs 576)
byte sectors but they got their SCSI IDs (or bus ids) wrong and
rewrote the
code page of the tape drive instead.
Weird in either case!
--Chuck
3:19 p.m.
IF you have a cleaning tape, stick it in there! There's a flash code that
it produces when it wants a cleaning tape and it won't do anything when it
wants one other than spit out whatever tape you put in there other than a
SONY or Exabyte cleaning tape. The drive is VERY fussy about what kind of
tapes it accepts. I'd bet it won't accept any of your old handycam
cartridges, and, in fact, there are some brands of "data-grade" tapes it
will never accept. I don't remember which ones they are, however, since I
haven't got any.
If you happen to figure out how it senses what kind of tape it has, please
let me know. This is still a mystery to me that I'd like to solve.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Hildebrand <ghldbrd(a)ccp.com>
To: classcomp mailing list <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 4:26 PM
Subject: Exabyte 8505XL tape drive or is it a DEC RZ24L
Hello,
Finally got a tape for this thing and it is DOA -- doesn't seem to do
anything. The lower green LED on the tape drive flashes slow then fast.
Interesting thing though -- when I interrogated the SCSI buss, it came
back
as a DEC RZ24L. thought you DEC fans might know what
that is, and if it
is
a proprietary model that I can't use on my Amiga.
Kind regards
--
Gary Hildebrand
ghldbrd(a)ccp.com
8751
days inactive
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