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Making SCSI tape drive controller accessible to VM OS using virt-manager
I'm trying to make a SCSI tape drive drive controller card (or strictly, the tape drives and robotic tape library hanging off it) visible to the OS running on the VM.
I'm running RHEL 7.9 on both the ...
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HP Ultrium 1840 LTO-4 slow write speeds
I have an HP StorageWorks Ultrium 1840 LTO-4 external tape drive attached to a machine running Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (kernel 4.15.0-99-generic) using an LSI20320IE PCI-X x4 SCSI adaptor with a VHDCI to ...
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Fiber tape changer missing on lsscsi
I'm configuring a server with Bacula to manipulate backups on a Dell TL4000 connected to the server via Fiber.
During the configuration of the Bacula Director I've accessed the bconsole to see if the ...
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Fibre channel: LTO tape overwritten on bus reset
There is a situation that we had at out customer that I'd like to understand better.
Here's what happened:
A library with LTO tape drives is connected to a fibre channel environment
Archiving ...
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Tape drive unusable on 14.04 ESXi VM
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I've got an Overland ArcVault connected to my system (actually a virtual machine, with the standalone SCSI card it's connected to in passthrough mode), but it seems like the named tape ...
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M1500 having to cycle tape drive power when enumerating
I'm trying to use a M1500 tape library that is new to me. Whenever the SCSI bus enumerates (at BIOS load and when Linux is booting) the enumeration will hang until I turn off and back on the tape ...
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Is there a version of mt for windows, or something similar?
First of all, I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this question. I was torn between SF and SU, but I decided for SF when I saw that questions about tape drives are scarce in SU.
I need to ...
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Is it possible to connect an HP 1760 SCSI Tape to a regular NON server board PC?
I own an Ultrium HP Tape 1760 SCSI, that used to reside on a Dell 2850, on an LSI SCSI card.
That Server is now R.I.P. Sad to say.
I want to connect the Tape to another PC, is it possible?
What ...
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Hot Swap Ultra320 SCSI LTO-Tape Drive
Can an Ultra320 SCSI LTO tape drive (or any SCSI device) be hot swapped without needing to power down the system? The current LTO tape drive is the only device on the SCSI host.
If the above can ...
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