I'm not familar connecting these to windows but "drive status unknown" might
be CDI related ??   Under devices for each tape drive turn off CDI.

Just a wild guess..probably won't help.


Robert Maiello
Pioneer Data Systems



On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:31:44 -0500, Fazil Saiyed <fazil.saiyed AT ANIXTER DOT 
COM> 
wrote:

>Hello
>I have new FC attached Drives on Adic i2000\IBM tape drives.
>I am unable to get networker funtionality working, either loading
>drives\lable backups etc.
>1. All known versions of IBM tape drives for windows 2003 64 bit were
>tried, none working.
>2. This is Dell PE 6850 server, SP1 for W3k.
>3. Qlogic QLE 2462 Drivers.
>loading drives returns errors as , drive is good but status is unkwon.
> FC mapping have 8 drives with lun 0 for control path not being used by any
>other drives on any other HBA configured to use lun 0.
>we removed all drives but one in ADic i2000 and did jbconfig
>the wizard discoverd more then one drive, with first drive at \\.\Tape0 he
>wanted to configure addtional drives, when we only assigned one.
>What are the recomendation in this senario, what troubleshooting we should
>do, how can we verify the connectivety on FC and between i2000.
>Any one has seen something similar ?
>Any suggestions, Any issues with drivers on 64 bit os and IBM\ADIC?
>all help is welcome
>Thanks
>Shoulnt this output have tape manufacturers name in it <> ?
>Why does FC drive order keep changing on rebooting server when persistant
>binding on FC cards is enabled.
>:\>tapes
>[email protected]:\\.\Tape3 is <>
>[email protected]:\\.\Tape4 is <>
>[email protected]:\\.\Tape5 is <>
>[email protected]:\\.\Tape0 is <>
>[email protected]:\\.\Tape6 is <>
>[email protected]:\\.\Tape1 is <>
>[email protected]:\\.\Tape7 is <>
>[email protected]:\\.\Tape2 is <>
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