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- From: dmuntz@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz)
- Subject: Re: tape drive problems
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.044227.5511@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
- References: <1992Jul21.015910.3456@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 04:42:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.015910.3456@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:
- >
- > I have not been able to get the tape device (/dev/rwt0)
- > to work properly on 0.1. I can tar/cpio/afio things out just
- > fine, but reading in produces garbage, even with the
- > directory reading options. I have tried various wangtek
- > type 6150 drives and controllers. All which work just fine
- > under SCO and sysvr4. Same thing happens with a tape produced
- > on another machine running sysvr4.
- > Anyone had good luck with the tape drive?
-
- Try using the block device /dev/wt0. I've been hacking on wt.c to
- get it working with an Archive controller (anyone interested plz send email).
- At least with the Archive, the block device works where the raw device fails.
- I don't think you'll be pleased with the performance if you do get it working...
-
- -Dan
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