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From: goykhman_a@apollo.hp.com (Alex Goykhman)
Subject: Re: Exabytes on Series 400's
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Message-ID: <1991Jun26.194155.19520@apollo.hp.com>
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 19:41:55 GMT

In article <4520@polari.UUCP> lampi@polari.UUCP (Michael Lampi) writes:
>I've been testing Exabyte 8200's and 8500's on various HP/Apollo 9000
>Series 4XX's (400t, 425t, etc.) under Domain/OS and (sigh) HP-UX, and have
>a couple of observations, and a couple of questions.
>
>First, 8200's work under HP-UX in all cases. No ifs, ands or buts.
>
>Second, 8500's work under HP-UX in all cases IF they have a brand-new firmware
>upgrade that just got released last week. Again, no changes required to the
>OS and no 3rd-party drivers required.
>
>Third, 8200's and 8500's work under Domain/OS in many cases, but not on a
>Mentor node, and tar sometimes has i/o troubles that are bit-pattern specific
>that don't occur with wbak or rbak. 
>
>"Not on a Mentor node" means that the
>node crashes immediately with status 440002, meaning "bad iova from os/dio
>bus manager" when using rbak, wbak and rwmt, but tar, cpio, mt, etc., all
>execute flawlessly, and netstat -c reports no tape drives while scsi_info
>reports a tape drive at SCSI ID 1.

    This problem was fixed in SR10.3.0.2 (patch_m0190).

>
>Has anyone else seen this behavior? Any solutions? Any reason why HP has
>decided to support 8mm tape drives under HP-UX (or Unix in general) and
>not support the Domain/OS utilities?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>-- 
>-----
>Michael Lampi            polari!lampi@sumax.seattleu.edu

    Alex Goykhman


-- 
Alex Goykhman                    
Chelmsford System Software Lab   mit-eddie!apollo!goykhman_a
Hewlett-Packard, Company         goykhman_a@apollo.hp.com
Needless to say, I speak for myself only