Are there presently any supported ways to attach a(n LTO) tape drive to a system running 9.2-2?
Ideally via SAS/SCSI
Is there a supported way to attach a Tape Drive to OpenVMS 9.2-2
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Is there a supported way to attach a Tape Drive to OpenVMS 9.2-2
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Re: Is there a supported way to attach a Tape Drive to OpenVMS 9.2-2
That is correct. It either crashes immediately after asking sysman to configure it, or right after "%STDRV-I-STARTUP, OpenVMS startup begun at" when the system is rebooted. Thankfully the drive is external and can be simply not present to allow it to boot.
The patch notes did mention fixes in IO_ROUTINES which was where my crash was, regarding data buffer locations; And fixes in the SCSI driver for one of the controllers I'm using. The large file copy bug also affected the bare metal machine, and mentioned memory boundaries so it was worth a retest overall.
I'm not sure why I focused on the magtape fix when there were a few that may affect this.