Subject: Exabyte Tape drives?
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/21/2000 00:25:58
Does anyone have an Exabyte 8200 connected to a VAX? I've got one and it 
isn't working as I would expect. This is on a VS3100/M76 (I tried it first 
on the VLC and it failed there and thought I would try the M76 to see if it 
was a SCSI driver issue.) The system sees it ok, from boot:

scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd1 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST410800N, 7112> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd1: 8347 MB, 4926 cyl, 26 head, 133 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 17096357 sectors
st0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <EXABYTE, EXB-8200, 425A> SCSI1 1/sequential 
removable
st0: drive empty

evax# tar -cv -f /dev/rst8 -b 126 .
./
build/
build/altroot/
build/bin/
build/bin/[
build/bin/cat
build/bin/chio
build/bin/chmod
build/bin/cp
build/bin/csh
tar: only wrote 0 of 64512 bytes to /dev/rst8
evax#

As you can see however it doesn't actually work. The system complains about 
the device timing out. On the VLC it says things like "Unit Attention" and 
CDB xx xx xxx. Neither work very will.

Since I've never actually used this drive successfully (I pulled it from a 
dead VAX) it could certainly be the drive but thought I would check here 
and see.

--Chuck