ADSM for OS/2 officially doesn't support the Eliant drives, even under 2.1.14.  
Eliants are supported in 2.1.15
in AIX.  I was told that by ADSM support when I had trouble labeling the tapes 
in my 210.  Exabyte sent me a
firmware update that fixed the labeling problem.  If you'd like, you can email 
me and I'll send you the files
Exabyte sent me and include my problem number with Exabyte for you to refer to 
if you call them.

Also, beware if you are using an IBM token ring PCI card with the original 
drivers.  It gave me Trap 0008
problems while doing anything with the tape drives.  It was finally traced to 
the NDIS drivers, and they gave
me a beta of some new drivers that were released in February.

Roger Perkins
BCBSWNY
Upstate Medicare Division


On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 12:15:50 -0500, Claus Schroeder wrote:

>     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
>