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>  Hello gang, I've got a system problem and I'd like to see if someone
>can come up with a way out of it.
>
>  I've got a 935 with four Eagle drives set in the system volume set.
>One of the drives gave out (Ldev2).  This system does not have an
>HP-IB tape drive on it (although one is still configured), but there is
>an external DDS-1 unit.  I'd forgotten that this system can't boot from
>a SCSI tape drive (big bummer), so outside of acquiring an HP-IB
>tape drive (which I'm going to have to do at some point to extend its
>life a little longer), how can I remove the failed ldev from the configuration
>and reload?  The system is just used for some Q&A testing so I can stand
>to loose whatever data is left on the remaining drives.  I do have a good
>(but unusable) SLT on DDS.
>
>Any ideas?  I'm fresh out.
>
>Regards,
>Michael L Gueterman
>Easy Does It Technologies
>SIG Web Co-Chair
>http://www.editcorp.com
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>

Michael:

Looks like you're hosed without an HP-IB tape. However, are you sure the DDS1
is not HP-IB? A lot of third party (IEM, ISA, etc) tape drives that converted
SCSI internal devices to HP-IB via a proprientary enclosure were sold around
the era of your 935.  Also: before you spend dollars on an HP-IB tape, don't
forget that MPE/iX 6.5 will drop HP-IB code altogether, leaving your 935 frozen
at 6.0.

John Painter
Computer Solutions, Inc.
http://www.internetcsi.com