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From: walstad@ocean (Leonard J. Walstad)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax
Subject: tape problems on a microVAX II running VMS 4.1
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Date: Sat, 15-Nov-86 12:10:25 EST
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We have a Kennedy 9600 tape drive with a Wespercorp Tape Dimension /
Q bus Cachecoupler interface.  This appears to the system as a ts11
and normally works quite well.  Occaisonally when an attempt
is made to mount a tape the error message:

Drive is not in configuration or is unavailable

is received.  So far the only way we have been able to fix this 
problem is to power down the system and reboot.  Any ideas
or suggestions would be appreciated.  I have considered
reloading the device driver.  Is this a good idea?

Thanks,  Leonard Walstad  (walstad@harvard ARPANET)
                          (walstad@harvunxh BITNET)