Exabyte tape drive installation?
BEGEMAN at MCOIARC.BITNET
BEGEMAN at MCOIARC.BITNET
Fri Apr 7 16:45:51 AEST 1989
I have a few questions about installing an Exabyte 8 mm backup unit on a
Sun 4/260. We bought the drive and board for the sun from TTi
(Transitional Technology Inc). We are running SunOS 3.2. I reconfigured
the kernal to what they specified in the manual and rebooted the sun with
no problem (I had not placed the SCSI adapter board in yet). I took out
the existing board in slot 7 of the Sun and placed the TTi board in (which
is actually a Ciprico Rimfire 3500 board). I made sure that I had the
tape drive on and plugged into the new board in case it had to test the
status of the drive when booting. I then tried to reboot the system, and
it gets to the point of printing "Auto-Boot in progress" and then just
hangs there forever. If anyone has any experience with a Ciprico board or
installing Exabyte drives, I would appreciate your suggestions.
Mike Begeman
Software Engineer
begeman at mcoiarc
P.S. I have called TTi many times and they have been of very little help
and have never installed this drive in a Sun 4.
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