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- Path: sparky!uunet!uchinews!machine!chinet!randy
- From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
- Subject: Re: tape drive problems
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.130623.15980@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:06:23 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.015910.3456@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Jul21.044227.5511@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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- In article <1992Jul21.044227.5511@zip.eecs.umich.edu> dmuntz@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz) writes:
- >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.
- >Try using the block device /dev/wt0.
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- Hmmm. No /dev/wt0 on my system, just rwt0 major 10, minor 0.
- Mr Jolitz sent me email saying not to use the -B option for cpio
- because of a bug in the wt driver, but that didn't help.
- I will look around to see why wt0 is missing.
- Thanks!
-
- >I don't think you'll be pleased with the performance if you do get it working...
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- Hey, an overnite backup is better than no backup!
- --
- I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds!
- Who is this dog meat who stands before me now?
- That's the biz, sweetheart.
- Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us
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