John,
YOU DA MAN! and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. I did even more
poking around on Sony but didn't find anything more detailed on SCSI
error codes, just some page saying "no further information is available"
and that I could send e-mail to tech support. I checked their faxback
system too with no luck.
I sent e-mail to Sony tech support asking if I could get a SCSI command
reference for the TSL-11000, and more specifically what the particular
error code means.
I modified my "nst-sleep" script so that it would also "detect" tapes
being unloaded, and put nst-sleep in place of regular sleep in the
chg-zd-mtx script, so the script does wait for the load and unload
functions to complete, but the SCSI bus reset still occurs.
I'm going to try it again with mtx-1.1 in case the error has something
to do with the barcode queries which are mentioned as a potential
problem with mtx > 1.1 on the mtx web page. I might also try the latest
mtx to see what happens.
If mtx-1.1 doesn't work, I'll try an strace on mtx to try to see what
it's doing when it decides to reset the bus.
"John R. Jackson" wrote:
> None of the books I have say what this means (it can be somewhat device
> dependent, so that's not too surprising), so you'll have to find some
> documentation about this beast to decode it. I tried to hunt it down
> at sony.com, but gave up.
>
> >"Jonathan F. Dill"
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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