AITe390/S
Are Sony AIT tape drives compatible with the ATTO UL5D in a Intel-based MAC-Pro or X-Serve?
ATTO Tech Support has found that with the release of MAC OS 10.4.10, there has been a number of reported problems accessing tape drives with EMC Retrospect and other backup programs. These usually materialize as system freezes or backups hang. This has been reported mostly with LTO3 and Sony AIT-4 or AIT-5 tape drives, but may happen with other types also.
ATTO has implemented a work around for this in the OS X SCSI driver version 4.20 or greater. This driver is available on the ATTO downloads page.
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Does the AIT External Drive package include a terminator or a SCSI cable?
The drive comes with an active terminator. However, we do not ship a SCSI cable with the drive.
HP Unix 11.11 Tape DLKM Driver (HP 9000/800 series 64 bit PCI Based Systems only)
These drivers are for AIT SCSI Drives only.
Notice: If your Sony tape drive is claimed by the HP-UX native stape driver you will need to force bind with the Sony HP-UX sony_tape driver.
HP Unix 11.0 Tape DLKM Driver (HP 9000/800 series 64 bit PCI Based Systems only)
These drivers are for AIT SCSI Drives only.
Notice: If your Sony tape drive is claimed by the HP-UX native stape driver you will need to force bind with the Sony HP-UX sony_tape driver.
Please Read: force_binding_readme.txt
Windows 2000 AIT Tape Driver
All Users:
Requires Service Pack 2 or greater!
If the user installs an unsigned driver for this web site, Windows 2000 will display a warning that the driver is unsigned, thus helping to preserve the integrity of the released system. However, by default, Windows 2000 does not block installation of unsigned drivers. This will allow Sony Electronics Inc. to get urgent fixes to customers while waiting for Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) to test the fix.
AIT-e90-UL & AIT-e130-UL Users: Cannot Restore Backup from USB Tape Drive or Back Up to the Drive If Verify Option Is Turned On. See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 328742 for more details. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B328742
AIT-e90-UL & AIT-e130-UL Users: Installing a Sony tape driver in place of the 1 Safe Backup Software tape driver will cause 1 Safe Backup not to function. The 1 Safe Backup Software tape driver will need to be reinstalled to restore 1 Safe Backup function. Tapes created on 1 Safe Backup Software are not compatible with NT Backup or any other tape backup application.