RQZX1 setup?

[Doc Shipley]

Douglas Taylor wrote:

>>   I had found a couple of pages of the manual and have been able to 
>> get into the firmware and configure the system  **if and only if** a 
>> TZ30 tape drive is attached.
> 
> 
> This sounds odd.  A TZ30 is holding your system 'hostage'?  I've 
> connected a TZ30 into the scsi bus and didn't noticed anything odd.

   It's very weird, for sure.

>> Even if the controller is set to MSCP on both channels and an 
>> alternate second CSR address, I can't access the RFM either by the ODT 
>> method or the BOOT xU253 method, and can't boot from the SCSI disk.
> 
> 
> If you need more info from the manual I'll scan the table of contents.

   One of the resellers I trade with is sending me a manual to scan, but 
thanks.

>>   This isn't a showstopper, but it is terribly confusing.  The person 
>> from whom I got the switch settings and RFM instructions runs a 
>> variety of tape devices on his RQZX1 with no problems.
> 
> 
> What other kinds of tape devices can you use?

   My HP C1536 DDS1 works fine, and a TZ06 works, as long as the TZ30 is 
attached.  I have an Exabyte 8505XL and a TSZ07 I could try as well, but 
I don't think it would make much difference.

   The only thing I haven't tried is disabling the tape channel 
entirely, booting nad configuring the RQZX1 like that, then re-enabling 
TMSCP without the TZ30.  I'll probably try that out in a week or so, 
when I get back from AZ.


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