Hi,

I had have the same problem on AIX with EXB210 and Eliant 820. The
problem is that the Eliant 820 is only supported at Level 0.15 and
above.



> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:  Claus Schroeder [SMTP:CSH AT TD.HEMPEL DOT DK]
> Gesendet am:  Montag, 23. März 1998 18:16
> An:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Betreff:      EXB210 and ADSM V2 for OS/2 with level 0.14
> 
>      ADSM support please read this:
> 
>      We have just purchased an EXB210 tape library with two Eliant 820
>      drives. Before installing it the server software was upgraded to
> V2 R1
>      level 0.14. Afterwards it seems as a number of things have
> happened.
> 
>      A. Using a Exabyte 8085XL for labelling tapes,  the labbeled
> tapes
>      doesn't stay in the eliant drives unless they are write
> protected.
>      Exabyte tech supports says that this behaviour  indicates that
> the
>      tape has been formatted with the old 8200 format which the eliant
>      drive cannot write to (why writable tapes of this format are
> ejected).
>      Thge eliant can read this format, therefore writeprotected tapes
> stays
>      in the drive.
> 
>      B. Trying to label types using the eliant drives an I/O error
> occurs.
>      Using the trace facility the sense data (according to Exabyte
> tech
>      support) indicates that an illegal operation has been tried.
> Maybe
>      trying to label the tape using the - for eliant drives - illegal
>      format 8200.
> 
>      Our old tapes, labelled before level 0.14 works fine with the
> eliant
>      drives. The labels are recognized with no problems at all.
> 
>      Does anybody know how to get around this problem? Tomorrow I will
>      reinstall level 0.12 on the server to see if the 8505XL can label
>      tapes so they can be read/written by the eliant drives. But
> reading
>      the device support pdf-file, it is stated that to get support for
> the
>      eliant drives one needs the level 0.14 software. I am seriously
>      confused and a little irritated. If somebody know how to make the
>      eliant drives play, please help.
> 
> 
>      Thanks in advance,
> 
>      kind regards
> 
>      Claus Schroeder
>      Hempels Marine Paints A/S
>      Denmark