Narrow Drive on Wide Controller

[ATCal]

Anyone know of any known issues adapting a narrow tape drive to a wide (U2W) controller? HAve a number of them running fine like this, however have one HP running Replica software throwing out sporadic &quot;No Tape In Drive&quot; errors. <br><br>Thanks in advance.

 

[ics007]

I've had narrow tape drives on wide SCSI buses for a while. My understanding is that the whole bus will now only work to the speed of the slowest devices, which is now the tape drive. I haven't had any tape drive errors like yours so I'd actually look into servicing the drives themselves. <br><br> <p>Dave Hamilton<br><a href=mailto:dhamilton@gio.com.au>dhamilton@gio.com.au</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[ATCal]

Thanks. That's kinda what I figured- but you know those software guys; always blame it on the hardware.

 

[Garth]

Most commonest problem related to this particular error is tape sensor is broken off so check it out if not check scsi termination on the drive as it is also a known problem hope this is helpful&nbsp;&nbsp;Garth