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| 8901.1 | | NETRIX::"[email protected]" | | Thu Feb 20 1997 09:22 | 8 |
| The TZ857 is a tape drive and loader together. The base OS recognizes
the tape drive as a TZ85. There is no support for loaders in the
base OS. In order to get the loader supported, the CLC kit (from
DECWET) needs to be installed. This explains why there are no loaders
listed in the Digital Unix SPD.
Jan Reimers
[Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
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| 8901.2 | | SSDEVO::ROLLOW | Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes. | Thu Feb 20 1997 11:48 | 12 |
| It is important to realize that none of the tape programs in the
base system supports auto-loaders. The SCSI CAM Medium Changer
driver is licensed software and only licensed through one of
the software products that uses it; MRU, NSR, HSM, etc. I
mention this because MRU is the product I work on, and somebody
using an unlicensed copy of the MC driver is taking potential
revenue away from us. MRU has the distiction of being very
inexpensive.
As for why the combination doesn't work, you've offered no
clue what the problem is. More information would be useful.
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| 8901.3 | MRU sounds promising??? | LOTIMA::P_MORRIS | | Fri Feb 21 1997 04:27 | 17 |
| Thanks for the prompt replies.
The problem the customer is experiencing is what you would expect.
Which is that running dump to the TZ857 seems to work OK with the
Loader set to automatic,(so it loads the next tape in the loader
automatically after the first one is ejected.).However when running
restore,the restore reads the first tape OK but when the tape reaches
EOT,restore bombs out back to the # prompt...not surprising I suppose.
So what S/W does the customer need to support this device using dump &
restore under 3.2G, & where can he obtain it from??
Regards
Phil
MRU sounds promising as this is a direct connect SCSI device ie: not on
a HSZ controller
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| 8901.4 | | SSDEVO::ROLLOW | Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes. | Fri Feb 21 1997 04:34 | 13 |
| Dump and restore don't handle auto-loaders. There is no
software that allows them to do this. These programs
were designed to run interactively and they don't handle
the lack of an operator very well. If the customer wants
a backup product and can handle medium changers, get
NSR.
MRU doesn't help much either, since it has no way to
interact with dump or restore. Now, it may be possible
to write a program which runs another program such as
dump or restore, reads the prompts and provides suitable
answers. Such a program could do whatever was appropriate
to manage the loader.
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| 8901.5 | Customer likes MRU | LOTIMA::P_MORRIS | | Fri Feb 21 1997 07:45 | 8 |
| Thanks for the info
I have talked to the customer & I think he will approach a reseller re:
MRU.
Regards
Phil Morris
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