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- From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Exabyte tape drives on Series 700 ?
- Message-ID: <28510295@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 09:42:30 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.115425.2@and.csc.liv.ac.uk>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
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- Eric Bushnell (eric@csi6.med.ge.com) writes:
-
- > Yes, it [Exabyte tape drive, FS] seems to work, with the exception of
- > tar. I've tried an older 8200 with a 710 running 8.07.
- [deleted]
- > Tar, however, does not work quite right. It appears to write archives, but
- > indexing them and extracting them is buggy.
-
- Another customer had a similar problem (on 9000/700 8.07, details
- about Exabyte unknown). Besides us, he called his Exabyte supplier. They
- installed a new PROM in the drive and he is happyly tar-ing away.
-
- > I believe it was Michael Lampi
- > (credit where it's due)
- > who identified the problem with tar as being a bogus attempt to write a filemark
- > after reading.
-
- Without exact details it is hard to tell, but probably the problem is
- in the driver instead of in tar. See SR # 4701056382 in file
- /etc/newconfig/807KNOWN_PROB, fixed in 9.0.
-
- Frank Slootweg, HP, Dutch Customer Response Center
-