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From - Thu Dec 14 18:23:12 2000 Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc Path: news.randori.com!newsfeeder.randori.com!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!skynet.be!oanews!info.usuhs.mil!uky.edu!enigma.xenitec.on.ca!news.xenitec.on.ca!news From: "D. Thomas Podnar" <tom@microlite.com> Subject: Re: Help with HP Travan Tape Drive Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca Submit-To: scomsc@xenitec.on.ca Organization: [resent by] The SCOMSC gateway and Propagation Society Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:26:45 GMT Message-ID: <200012141326.IAA29649@mlite.microlite.com> To: eric@sstcs.com, jpr@jpr.com, scomsc@xenitec.on.ca X-Mailer: SCO OpenServer Mail Release 5.0 Sender: news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator) Precedence: list Lines: 61 Xref: news.randori.com comp.unix.sco.misc:69934 X-Mozilla-Status: 8011 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 : Eric M. Gordon propounded (on Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:31:13AM +0000): : | I have installed an HP Travan tape drive into an SCO 5.0.5 system. It keeps : | erroring out during a tar or during the Verify phase of Microlite Edge. : : And the erros are ? : : | I've tried replacing the drive and changing tapes but the effect is : | generally the same. : : Generally?: When are they the same (and what are they in that case) : and when are they NOT the same (and then what are they) ? : : | Has anyone gotten one of these to work successfully? Are there any SCO : | Patches that are needed. I believe I've installed the latest patches. : : Upon what do you base your belief? : : -- : JP His drive is ATAPI/IDE.
We've recommended that he patch the Stp driver with the Driver.a that properly separates read errors from EOM errors. We've also recommended that he install the latest "wd" driver from: ftp://stage.caldera.com/pub/drivers/OSR505/btld/ The only other thought I have that we haven't mentioned is that he check the HP web site for firmware upgrades to his drive. o The firmware version for the HP SureStore T20e, T20Xe, T20i, T20Xi Travans is 3.01. o For the HP Colorado 14GB it is 4.01. o For the HP Colorado 8GB it is 2.08. o For the HP Colorado 5GB it is 2.08. There are no firmware updates posted for the HP Colorado 20GB. http://www.hp.com/cposupport/nonjsnav/hptapeback19100.html is the jump off point for HP firmware updates.
That pretty much covers our ideas, unless he has a bad batch of media, or needs to clean the drive more frequently. Any other thoughts/ideas out there? Tom --- D. Thomas Podnar - President tom@microlite.com Email Microlite Corporation 724-375-6711 Voice 2315 Mill Street 724-375-6908 Fax Aliquippa PA 15001-2228 888-257-3343 Toll Free Sales +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The Crash Recovery Company(sm) | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Makers of Microlite BackupEDGE - Data Archiving Software For Unix/Linux. | | and Microlite RecoverEDGE - The Smart Crash Recovery Software with | | Network Support for Linux, UnixWare 7.1,| | OpenServer 5.0.x and Unix 3.2v4.2. | |http://www.microlite.com ftp://ftp.microlite.com | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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