DL380/G2 Hot plug 72G DAT tape drive not working on

[Paul Howarth]

Armbruster, David wrote:
> Its a hot plug SCSI drive connected to the 5i RAID Controller. I 
> used a little script to engage the scsi once booted but it complains of I/O 
> errors and offlines the drive. I can pull a status off the drive with mt,
> but any attempt to write to the drive and its gone until the next boot time.
> Very strange......

Is the device terminated properly? That might be the cause of I/O errors.

Paul.