TIMWAH, can you help?

[TekGeek555]

Hello Tim,

I have a few STK 9840B and 9840C drives and I need STDS to test them. Are you familiar with this software? Also I believe I read somewhere on the forum that you had access to stortek's support site. Can you help me get this software? Thanks for your help Tim.

 

[timwah]

Hi TekGeek,
I'm in agreement with STKman's post. STDS is proprietary and will not help much with diagnostics. You need a program like SCSI ToolBox if you want to run in depth diags.

http://www.scsitoolbox.com/

 

[STKman]

Hi Tekgeek

To yourself and anyone else who may be interested, if you don't want to shell out the ridiculous amounts of money it costs for SCSI toolbox - and you or a coleague know a little bit about Visual Basic. Then get the shareware SCSI OCX and write your own SCSI diagnostic program. I got it some time ago and it works very well. It comes with some basic sample code and only took a few hours to get a decent app running. Not quite SCSI toolbox, but it does the job with timed full tape writes, rewinds, reads, random spacing and all that kind of stuff. If a command fails you can trap the error (ASC ASCQ) code. Some info here...

http://www.coolstf.com/docs/aspi.html

All the reference material you need is in the DLT product guide which has a section on SCSI command codes, so you know what the codes are for read, write, rewind etc

Regards, STKman

 

[Chris969404]

Another program you can use is SCSIPro from Mirus Technology it costs around $1500 and is pretty versatile.

 

[TekGeek555]

Hi you guys,

Thanks for the helpful comments! I appreciate it alot.