DDS-1 SCSI TApe drive HP SureStore 5000

[Aoresteen]

I'm trying to get my HP SureStore 5000 (SS5K) running with my Quadra 605. It's in an external SCSI box with 4 other devices.

1. Has anyone ever gotten the SureStore 5000 to work with Sys 7.5.5? I have Retrospec software to drive it.

2. When the SS5K is in the SCSI chain my Yamaha CD-r will not mount a CD. If I remove the SS5K, CD's mount fine. I'm using the generic CD-Sunshine driver for the CD-r. Just the simple presense of the SS5K keeps CDs from mounting. Weird.

3. Are there any known SCSI DDS-1 tape drives that are Mac & Sys 7 friendly?

Thanks!

 

[Unknown_K]

Check your termination and SCSI ID.

 

[Aoresteen]

Did that. On the Mac and on a PC. The drive shows as SCSI 4 and no termination.

 

[Cory5412]

I can't directly speak for the time, but today, almost all DAT/DDS and LTO mechanisms are the same two mechanisms produced in the same place, with different brand labels applied.

Have you tried doing things like putting the tape drive at the far end of the SCSI chain, or making it the first item, and ensuring that you don't have any termination before the end of the chain?

Additionally, it is best if you access the tape using the same software that originally created it (in many cases, right down to the point version). (I'm not sure about UNIX where 'tar' was fairly standard, but the impression I get is that until LTFS came along super duper recently (like, 2010) no two Windows/Mac apps had the same tape formats.)