Re: StorageTek 2920 9-track manual or instructions wanted

2016-09-23 Thread Tor Arntsen
On 30 June 2016 at 14:33, Al Kossow wrote: > On 6/30/16 12:23 AM, Tor Arntsen wrote: >> >> On 29 June 2016 at 22:11, Al Kossow wrote: >> >>> there is one version of the maint manual up under stc on bitsavers now. >>> it turns >>> out I have several other versions, and the manual for the formatter

Re: StorageTek 2920 9-track manual or instructions wanted (And a bit about rescuing a Nord-1)

2016-07-03 Thread Göran Axelsson
Hi and thanks for all the help I got! Both on the list and via email directly. A couple of days ago I did a quick test of the drive and I was able to load tapes, both manually and with automatic tape loading. It's a really nice drive. BPI were detected automatically so the drive seems to be i

Re: StorageTek 2920 9-track manual or instructions wanted

2016-06-30 Thread Al Kossow
On 6/30/16 12:23 AM, Tor Arntsen wrote: On 29 June 2016 at 22:11, Al Kossow wrote: there is one version of the maint manual up under stc on bitsavers now. it turns out I have several other versions, and the manual for the formatter I noticed there's now both an stc directory (with the 2920 m

Re: StorageTek 2920 9-track manual or instructions wanted

2016-06-30 Thread Tor Arntsen
On 29 June 2016 at 22:11, Al Kossow wrote: > there is one version of the maint manual up under stc on bitsavers now. it > turns > out I have several other versions, and the manual for the formatter I noticed there's now both an stc directory (with the 2920 manual) and a storagetek directory (wi

Re: StorageTek 2920 9-track manual or instructions wanted

2016-06-29 Thread Al Kossow
Well, this is fun. Same part number on the manual, but different sets of interfaces defined. I found the one that has SCSI in it, and will try to get it uploaded later today. I don't appear to have the schematics for the SCSI version. On 6/29/16 1:11 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > On 6/29/16 12:5

Re: StorageTek 2920 9-track manual or instructions wanted

2016-06-29 Thread Al Kossow
On 6/29/16 12:58 PM, Shaun Halstead wrote: > I believe JP Hindin has the service docs (and one of the drives) from my > shop, though they may be inaccessible at the moment. > there is one version of the maint manual up under stc on bitsavers now. it turns out I have several other versions, an

Re: StorageTek 2920 9-track manual or instructions wanted

2016-06-29 Thread Shaun Halstead
The 2920 has been discussed here before, about a year ago. I went through my back emails, but couldn't find the thread. The 2920 came in some flavor of Pertec, and SCSI via rear-mounted adapter. Yours appears to have the adapter interface. We ran several of the pertec version of these drives

Re: StorageTek 2920 9-track manual or instructions wanted

2016-06-28 Thread Al Kossow
On 6/28/16 11:36 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > FWIW, there is one on eBay: > http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Manual-For-Storage-Technology-Corp-2920-Tape-Subsystem-Maintenance-Manual-/301524483917 I bought it, and will take care of getting it scanned and on bitsavers. I've got some other STC manuals

Re: StorageTek 2920 9-track manual or instructions wanted

2016-06-28 Thread Jon Elson
On 06/28/2016 04:28 AM, Göran Axelsson wrote: Hi all, I have a Norsk Data ND110324 9-track drive which is a rebranded StorageTek 2920 with SCSI interface. So far I have only found a single manual for it, a quick guide card of 10 pages. Is there a manual out there which describes the unit a

Re: StorageTek 2920 9-track manual or instructions wanted

2016-06-28 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Göran Axelsson wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a Norsk Data ND110324 9-track drive which is a rebranded StorageTek > 2920 with SCSI interface. So far I have only found a single manual for it, a > quick guide card of 10 pages. > > Is there a manual out there which desc

StorageTek 2920 9-track manual or instructions wanted

2016-06-28 Thread Göran Axelsson
Hi all, I have a Norsk Data ND110324 9-track drive which is a rebranded StorageTek 2920 with SCSI interface. So far I have only found a single manual for it, a quick guide card of 10 pages. Is there a manual out there which describes the unit a bit more in depth, like setting the SCSI addres

Re: StorageTek 2920 9-track manual or instructions wanted

2016-06-28 Thread Göran Axelsson
Adding the links I should have included from start ... doh! Den 2016-06-28 kl. 11:28, skrev Göran Axelsson: Hi all, I have a Norsk Data ND110324 9-track drive which is a rebranded StorageTek 2920 with SCSI interface. http://www.ndwiki.org/wiki/User:Gandalf/hw/filestore_2 So far I have only f