I've had the case where the tape drive would stop responding,
with a tape in it. No lights. I had to re-power the drive
(first couple times was re-power the system; then ... we wont
go there). MPE 6.0 and MPE 7.0.
Must be the drive; I don't have an answer.

Sure wish these scsi devices had a front reset button.

Keven

Tracy Pierce wrote:
> Last Tuesday while I was out of the office, it was reported that one of
> my users couldn't log on.  I VPN'd in, and discovered my HP3000 957
> unavailable, spoke with pipple onsite who said "no lights" on the box at
> all.  No other devices in the room indicated failure of line power, and
> everything's on UPS, the 957 doubly so, so all I could figure was that
> somebody must have um accidentally um hit the power switch.  I walked my
> onsite person thru a power-up sequence (it's not completely automatic
> alas), and all seemed to go well.  But that night's backup failed,
> saying unknown device...
> :FILE BUPDEV;DEV=!BUPDEV
>  FILE BUPDEV;DEV=9
>                  ^
>  Unknown logical device. (CIERR 345)
>  REMAINDER OF JOB FLUSHED.
>  CPU sec. = 1.  elapsed min. = 1.  WED, DEC  7, 2005,  1:00 AM.
> The next day it was reported to me that the tape drive we know as ldev 9
> wouldn't eject its tape, and that the CleanMe! light was on.  Yep, no
> response to the drive's button, so I switched to using ldev7, pending...

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