On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:04:49AM -0400, Rohloff, Brent            CSC wrote:

Brent, 


We had similar problem. 
I turned out L700 had a bad SCSI cable, it was a factory defect. 
All tape drives including robotic device showed 
similar problems. Since the cable was replaced we never had problems
again. 

Thanks,
Andrew

> DLT drives are getting tapes stuck in them ?
> 
> I've got a StorageTek L700 with four DLT drives,
> DataCenter 3.4, Solaris 2.6
> 
> Over the past 6 months, occasionally a drive would get a tape hung in it.
> The StorageTek Tech said it looked like the eject lever broke and replaced
> two of the drives.
> 
> I had three of the four drives get hung up this weekend, including one of
> the replaced drives.
> The fourth drive worked until this morning, when it went to change tapes, it
> got stuck too.
> 
> Now all four drives are hung up and the StorageTek guy is on the way.
> 
> Has anyone seen this ?
> Could it be the robot is breaking the eject levers on the drives ?
> 
> I tried upping the drives from NetBackup,
> tried ejecting the tape from the L700 front panel,
> tried opening the L700 and pushing the button and lever on one of the
> drives.
> No luck,
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> Brent
> 
> Brent Rohloff
> UNIX Admin
> CSC at Sikorsky Aircraft
> brohloff.csc AT sikorsky DOT com
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