[Info-vax] Replacement of SCSI tape drives and loaders

[Rob Brown]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 at 14:11 -0500, Syltrem wrote:

> I have 2 Alpha servers, each with SCSI connected tape drive(s)
>
> I want to move the drives from one server to another, and install a 
> new one.
>
> QUESTION: Can I do this live ?

Back when I had a working tape drive, I used to move it among my two 
vaxes and my alpha (DEC 3000-400).  The tape drive had a terminator on 
it.  I always installed a terminator on the machines that did not have 
the tape drive.  I noticed on the alpha that if there was disk 
activity on the unterminated bus, that the disk or bus would log 
errors.  I don't think I ever had a system crash.

The advice to make sure that the SCSI bus is idle is good advice.  I 
agree with the other advice given by Steven and Christoph, as well.


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