By "the pins at the back" you should mean there are
no jumpered pins to give the address you mentioned.

             Bob J. -- Ideal Computer Services
             http://www.icsgroup.net


Brian Donaldson wrote:
> Yes, this posting is actually on topic, sorry about that.....
>  
> My box is a 917LX.
>  
> The DDS-3 Tape drive stopped loading tapes, kept kicking them out. 
>  
> So I put a replacement DDS-3 tape drive in its place this morning. Pretty  
> simple thing to do, or at least it seemed to be.
>  
> The "new" (actually a refurbished) DDS-3 tape drive loads the tapes just  
> fine but I noticed I wasn't getting the console message that tells me the tape  
> is online. Now that made me suspicious.
>  
> I went back to the ISL prompt and tried a DUMP inside ODE and I got the  
> following error messages:
>  
> Can't access tape at 52.0.0
> Status -31281 ($85CF) From subsystem 213 ($D5)
> Can not access the tape device
> Status 1025 ($401) From Subsystem 149 ($95)
>  
> The pins at the back of the DDS-3's are identical so I removed the old  DDS-3 
> and replaced it
> with the newer one. 
>  
> I made no changes in Sysgen at all.
>  
> I have rebooted the box with a tape in the drive and also with no tape in  
> the drive. 
>  
> When the system comes up it tells me that LDEV 7 is configured but  
> not-available.
>  
> Any help would be appreciated.
>  
> TIA,
> Brian Donaldson.
> 
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