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- Subject: 8mm appending savesets
- Message-ID: <9207251744.AA26554@relay2.UU.NET>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 16:40:23 GMT
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- Where I need to append savesets to an 8mm tape, on tapes on Qbus/unibus/
- etc. it works fine just to use back/norewind. On SCSI controlled 8mm,
- however, this does not work unless the tape is already positioned.
- Thus an INIT followed by a lot of back/norewind commands works fine.
- Adding a saveset to a tape that isn't empty does not, generating
- spurious errors.
- On SCSI controlled 8mm, it is however possible to get the tape
- positioned correctly by giving a command of form
- $back/list=nla0:a.b/ign=label mkb400:*
- (using the tapeunit on your system of course)
- after which one or more back/norewind commands will work correctly.
-
- This seems to be an artifact of SCSI controller and/or MKdriver.
- When the tape is not dismounted between savesets, this technique
- need be used at most only for the first positioning. On non-SCSI
- controllers, the tapes work more like real tapes in all ways. I
- initialize the 8mm's explicitly when using new ones, having seen
- problems also under VMS 5.5. Hopefully the driver will be improved.
- Glenn Everhart
- Everhart@Raxco.com
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