HELP: HP Surestore Tape 12000e DDS-2 Tape Autoloader with ..

[Guest]

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Greetings.

I have had this old surplus tape autoloader for a year or so, since I
purchased it off eBay for about a hundred bucks.

I can't seem to get Linux to recognize the autoloader. When I first got
the thing, it seemed to respond to the system, but then "gave out." The
autoloader itself seems to be working fine; the POST is successful, the
cartridges autoload just fine, etc.

Anyone have any experience with these things and could give me some clues?

Thanks.

 

[beelzebub]

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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:40:29 GMT, A Nengineer <root@nowhere.inthe.cc>
wrote:

>Greetings.
>
>I have had this old surplus tape autoloader for a year or so, since I
>purchased it off eBay for about a hundred bucks.
>
>I can't seem to get Linux to recognize the autoloader. When I first got
>the thing, it seemed to respond to the system, but then "gave out." The
>autoloader itself seems to be working fine; the POST is successful, the
>cartridges autoload just fine, etc.
>
>Anyone have any experience with these things and could give me some clues?
>
>Thanks.

Hmm. The autoloader probably doesn't work with Linux since it is an
old device and only works with computers that work with Windows 98SE
and up. I have an HP 1533a DDS-2 tape drive which is not an
autoloader, and it works fine with a SCSI card that I have had for
years only on a Windows box as there are no drivers to run it on a
linux box.

 

[Guest]

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Beelzebub wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:40:29 GMT, A Nengineer <root@nowhere.inthe.cc>
> wrote:
>
>
>>Greetings.
>>
>>I have had this old surplus tape autoloader for a year or so, since I
>>purchased it off eBay for about a hundred bucks.
>>
>>I can't seem to get Linux to recognize the autoloader. When I first got
>>the thing, it seemed to respond to the system, but then "gave out." The
>>autoloader itself seems to be working fine; the POST is successful, the
>>cartridges autoload just fine, etc.
>>
>>Anyone have any experience with these things and could give me some clues?
>>
>>Thanks.
>
>
> Hmm. The autoloader probably doesn't work with Linux since it is an
> old device and only works with computers that work with Windows 98SE
> and up. I have an HP 1533a DDS-2 tape drive which is not an
> autoloader, and it works fine with a SCSI card that I have had for
> years only on a Windows box as there are no drivers to run it on a
> linux box.

Well, actually there are Linux software tools available for this machine
which I downloaded and installed. I actually got the system to recognize
the autoloader, flip the cartridges back and forth, etc. I didn't have
time to try to actually write something to the tape so I let it go for
awhile.

Came back several weeks later and just couldn't get anything to work.

I appreciate your pointing out these considerations, but I suspect there
is someone here somewhere who HAS gotten it to work. I'm hoping they'll
chime in.