Tape Troubles
writing a RDB to a tape drive is pointless. there are no cylinders to…
hold it! be sure that the RDB on your boot drive has the drivers you want
to use (be they GVP or whatever). I simply believe the current SCSI device
driver you're using just doesn't like certain aspects of how Exabyte does
their SCSI tape handling or just doesn't know what commands the Exabyte
supports and which it doesn't. Almost no SCSI controller manufacturer has
their driver right for ALL tapes. I've yet to encounter a
controller/driver combination that couldn't be spoofed by some new SCSI
device that the controller/driver makers didn't test on. It has happened
to me several times – and IVS does a spectacular job of making whatever
changes are needed to their driver and … BINGO everything starts to work
OK again.