NT drivers for Sun TZ Media Changer 1

[wilsona]

Hi,
I have a Sun DLT 4700 DLT Autochanger, which consists of a Quantum DLT drive and a SUN TZ Media Changer all nicely bolted together in the same box. I would like to use this device for NT backups using Legato Networker or similar. I can find plenty of NT drivers for Quantum DLT drives, but nothing for the media changer. Does anyone know where I could get hold of driver for this device, or does such a thing as a Generic NT Media Changer driver exist? Surely the functions of such a device are standard? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[jschmid]

I have not seen any responses to the simple question above. Any Help????

 

[wilsona]

I have since been informed by ATL (Quantum) that it is all to do with the Vendor ID in firmware, which you cannot change. I tried, believe me... So, unless Sun produces an NT driver, or I decide to use it again on a Sun box, it is basically a pile of scrap. This is a simple SCSI device that has been made deliberately vendor specific. Thanks Quantum! Thanks Sun!

 

[SmokieJoe]

Hi
I have an identical DLT, was hoping to use it with NT but obviously can't.
Reading your posting prompted me to install 'Solaris for Intel' (free on sun.com/software/solaris/binaries )
It's my first-time installing Unix. Will keep you posted.

 

[wilsona]

Maybe I have been a bit unclear - the drive itself will work OK on NT (they couldn't fix that!) but the 7-tape autochanger won't. You would need to manually move the tapes around.

 

[chrisvae]

I have been able to change the firmware from the Sun DLT 4700 DLT Autochanger to the Quantum DLT 4700 and it is recognized by NT.
On the FTP.QUANTUM.COM site I have downloaded the soft DLTtools for win32. I have installed it on my PC, connected a Quantum 4700, and download the EEPROM to a file. Then I connected the SUN 4700 and uploaded the file into the EEPROM. Once this was done, the SUN 4700 was recognised by NT as a Quantum 4700 and was usable in NT. I have tested it with Veritas.

 

[wilsona]

Sounds great - unfortunately we do not have a Quantum 4700 DLT drive that we can dump the eeprom contents from. We only have the Sun drive. I do not know what the position is on distribution, etc., but my email address is alan.wilson@south-ayrshire.gov.uk !!!

 

[wilsona]

I have downloaded the tools, tried a few firmware upgrades.... Faiols every time with 'Invalid personality' (as I would expect) if I try to use a non-OEM image. How exactly did you do it? :-(

 

[jaileon]

Hi guys, I have the same situation but I don't know how to start. First I don't find the firmware for the DLT4700 on the Quantum website anymore, do you guys know where else to download it from?
Second, do I have to have another tape library/drive to do this process? Does it have to be Quantum 4700?
Any help is appreciatted.

 

[peterbokunet]

I downloaded the windows driver for the Quantum DLT-4700 from the web site and then edited the QntmDLT.inf file to add the lines, where appropriate by the examples in there:

SUN = SUN_Models

[SUN_Models]
"SUN DLT4700 SCSI Sequential Device" qntmdlt_Inst, SCSI\SequentialSUNDLT470____________

(note the wrapping of that second line)

It then recognized the change as well as the drive work worked fine until the drive itself had issues.

peter

 

[MrPeter]

Peter, a man of my own name and heart, thanks for this tip, just picked up that loader on ebay and my "sun systems" warning didn't go off in time, you'll save my day If I can pull it off on my windows box.