No, its a dds3 unit.

If I disconnect the internal, and connect an external DDS3 drive set up as
unit 3, will there be any config changes needed? The external scsi socket is
on different bus?

Prefer to minimize pain for local minimally technical staff.

thanks,
jp
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "John Pitman" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 4:44 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Dying dds tape drive


> John-
>
> Is it DDS2?  If so, they're notorious for failure.  Go to DDS3 if you can.
> It will read your DDS2 tapes, and in fact will write to them, too,
although
> it will act as a DDS2 drive in terms of performance and capacity if you
use
> DDS2 tapes, but it will be more reliable.
>
> If it turns out the drive is bad, I'd replace it with an external unit (if
> it's not external already) or if you have a HASS array there, you can get
> them for HASS arrays.  This way, you don't have to shut the system down at
> every failure and it doesn't require an HP tech to replace.
>
> If you want to explore any of this further, let me know.
>
> Best,
>
> John Lee
> Vaske Computer Solutions
>
>
> At 01:39 PM 3/19/04 +1100, you wrote:
> >We have a remote 928, and a month or two ago its dds drive died - got an
> >error indicating low level io problem, call hp. Replaced it with a refurb
> >unit, worked ok for a few weeks, now this drive is giving me a subsys
113,
> >error -44, generic hardware error, call hp.(trying to do a remote
online).
> >Anybody BTDT lately? Any advice? This thing is in China, outside any well
> >known cities, and HP engineers are thin on the ground.
> >
> >TIA,
> >John Pitman
> >
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