bernsteg Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 Hi there, we just purchased a new VXA-320 library after wanting to retire our vxa-2 library. We connected the vxa-3 up to the same G5 computer with the same SCSI cables with the same ATTO UL5d SCSI card that the vxa-2 tape library was connected to. All looks good, however, once a backup starts after a few minutes we get an error 205 (lost communication with storage device). The computer is a Mac G5 running Retro 6.1 with the 6.1.3101 rdu. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks -Gary bernsteg@uiuc.edu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekr0phage Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 Hi Gary, One thing to double check is that the SCSI id's for the device are on 2 & 5. 2 for the tape drive and 5 for the library itself. This will ensure minimal chance of communications problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernsteg Posted February 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Thanks for the advice, but that did not help. After a few minutes of backup the tape unloads and then the error 205 appears. Any other ideas? Thanks -Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Hi What is the driver version of the Atto card? Make sure you have the latest from Atto. I would install the Atto SCSI utility as well. After the failure does anything else wierd happen? i.e. problems moving tapes or seeing the drive? Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Gary, you don't say whose VXA-320 you have. If it's Exabyte, be sure to update the drive's firmware because there have been some firmware updates, the most recent at the end of January (v1310E). I note by reading the change log that some of the changes had to do with SCSI communications. Russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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