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briang
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Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:16 am Post subject:
Exabyte 4200c |
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Does anyone have a manual for the Exabyte 4200c? I just purchased a
used (duh) one and need to know how to set the SCSI ID number. There
are 4 pairs of jumper pins on back which I presume is where one does
this, but I don't know what specific configurations to use. Any help
anybody could provide would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks. |
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Rob Turk
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Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:26 am Post subject:
Re: Exabyte 4200c |
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"briang" <briangateley@tds.net> wrote in message
news:1129148204.113265.16030@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
[quote]Does anyone have a manual for the Exabyte 4200c? I just purchased a
used (duh) one and need to know how to set the SCSI ID number. There
are 4 pairs of jumper pins on back which I presume is where one does
this, but I don't know what specific configurations to use. Any help
anybody could provide would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks.
[/quote]
There's about zero of those manuals around, they were never made available
in PDF either.
The easiest thing to do is experiment. One jumper position was for termpower
or parity, the others were ID 1, 2 and 4. Put a jumper on the leftmost
position. If the drive stays at ID 0, then you found the parity/termpower
jumper. If it changes to one then that's where the ID bits start. If it
changes to 4 then that's where the ID bits end.
Run a very thorough test on the 4200c drive before committing important data
to it, it's a really old drive...
Rob |
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briang
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Fri Oct 14, 2005 9:40 pm Post subject:
Re: Exabyte 4200c |
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Thanks a lot for your help, Rob, that should be enough to get me going.
And I will take your advice about testing it to heart, too. Believe
it or not, that's the most modern tape drive that our system will
support!
Thanks again,
Brian |
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Rob Turk
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Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:14 am Post subject:
Re: Exabyte 4200c |
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"briang" <briangateley@tds.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Thanks a lot for your help, Rob, that should be enough to get me going.
And I will take your advice about testing it to heart, too. Believe
it or not, that's the most modern tape drive that our system will
support!
Thanks again,
Brian
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If this is an embedded application or something like a studio recorder, then
you may be able to use Exabyte's VXA drives instead. They can be
reprogrammed to emulate other tape devices to some extent. From my
experience with the EXB-4200c I wouldn't trust my data on it when it's any
older than 3 years... Consider that a strong hint...
If you'd like more info about VXA and what it can emulate then contact me
off-list (avoid the obvious spam trap ;-)
Rob |
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