I know this is an old library, but I see Dell are still providing firmware and their documentation details it working with LTO-8 drives so it's got a pretty long service life. I've tried updating the firmware on the drives themselves, which made no difference. Sure enough, the drives I got with it had this set, but setting it on my LTO-5 drive didn't make a difference. I found a single reference to setting the DIP switches on the drive - number 5 needs to be ON for a library. Googling around for the last issue suggests that despite the tape drive physically interfacing to the sled, being in the same series and being Dell OEM, there are some internal changes to the drive that go beyond firmware - a standalone drive is not able to work in a tape library.
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The drive is the same IBM series as in the TL4000 and has the correct physical interfaces.
However, if I try to read or write anything off the drive using tar with a tape loaded, I get errors that no medium is loaded. I can move tapes between the magazine and the drive. If I connect it to a different machine with a Dell H200 SAS HBA, it does expose the necessary LUN for the robot.I'm not sure if this is a problem with my SAS card (Adaptec ASR-78165 in HBA mode) but this machine is going to be my intended tape server. It doesn't expose a SCSI LUN for the robot. If I connect the LTO-3 or -4 tape drive to my NAS via SAS, I can only see the tape drive.I think they're all related but they may not be. I have multiple problems here so I hope I can describe them in a semi-logical order. I've been trying to get things working with the LTO-3 - none of my LTO-3 tapes have labels, but I printed my own for a box of unused LTO-2 tapes and they were recognised by the library.
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It has 1x LTO-3 and 2x LTO-4 tape drives installed plus an empty LTO-3 sled, though one of the LTO-4 drives doesn't work. However I'm having trouble getting it to work with my Linux machines.
It is very slow, taking >15 minutes to boot up from cold. I got into the web UI without issue and updated the firmware to latest. The library itself seems to be working - diagnostics pass, the robot moves tapes around etc. I got my hands on a Dell TL4000 tape library - 48-slot, 4 drive slots (3 included) and 2 PSUs. I don't see a dedicated Tape subforum so I guess this is the closest?
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