On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Charles Galpin wrote:

> Hi everyone
> 
> I bought a Seagate TapeStor STT20000N-C. It's a internal SCSI drive that
> does hardware compression. It uses 10/20gb tapes (TR-5 aka QIC 32200), and
> is the only device off a adapatec 2930 card.

> My problems:
> 
> 1. I chose STD QIC for the device. I was very surprised to not see all the
> different QIC types listed. Is this ok? If not, how do I add a new type?
> 2. I chose QIC 25GB for the tape. there was no 10/20GB choice, and
> couldn't find a way to add a new tape type. How do I do this?
> 3. When i start a *real* interactive backup it says "drvie 'TRAVAN Drive'
> is locked" repeatedly evety minute. When thi si occuring I can happily
> access the tape with mt.

I would suspect Arkeia as the problem before looking to the tape drive.
Have you tried tarring something to the drive and restoring it? This is a
good thing to do, that way you know the hardware is good before adding a
complex software piece on top...


Bill Carlson
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