"James B. Byrne" wrote:

> BTW, I still can't boot from the factory SLT on my 918LX.
> Hardware people have been called.  I have modified the
> sysgen config to show the DDS device as an HPC1537A in
> conformity with what MAPPER reports.  This change had no
> effect on the outcome, not that I could see how it would but I
> have learned at high cost not to disregard the impossible.

what model tape drive do you really have?  is it a dds-3?  there are
known issues with trying to do an update with 'too new' of a tape
drive.  (i would have thought this would have been fixed by now
(ahem!)).  you may need to yank the dds-3 and replace it with an older
tape drive -- just long enough to do the update.  once you're past
that hurdle, put your dds-3 back in and finish watching your tapes
spin.  (of course, you can't really do that anymore :-)       - d

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