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From: grund@pyrite.som.cwru.edu (Victor Grund)
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Subject: 8mm and 1/4" SCSI addressing problem
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Date: 22 Oct 90 01:43:09 GMT
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Just a small contribution to the net...

We've noticed that customers getting both the 8mm and 1/4" tape drive
options on their systems are getting both devices configured with
SCSI address 2.  Tapes will read a bit from these drives with
conflicting addresses, then give you the old "read error, assuming
zeros" message.  This should've been the first thing I checked, but it
wasn't and I wasted a good bit of time before I noticed it.

This is easily fixed by changing the address of one of the drives to a
free SCSI address by rotating the address knob on the back of the
drive.

Regards,
Victor Grund

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