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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!zeus!peter
- From: peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
- Subject: Re: Archive Viper 525 and Dell
- Message-ID: <Bs55tB.6EI@zeus.dialix.oz.au>
- Organization: Karam Pty. Ltd. Perth, Australia
- References: <1992Jul28.025909.7068@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:19:58 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- bruno@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Bruno Hall) writes:
-
- >I am trying to get Dell SVR4 2.1 to talk to an Archive Viper 525.
-
- >Has anyone managed to do this?
-
- >At the moment, it'll write a tape file at the beginnig of a tape, and
- >then refuse to write another after the first. Also, the light on the
- >drive stays on after the initial access -- until the tape is removed.
-
- Whew! For a while there, I thought I was the only person having
- problems with the 525 on Dell. My problems are MUCH worse than yours though,
- I cannot even write (there's a blocksize problem somewhere..).
- If I write with a blocksize of 20K (the blocksize is irrelevant- i have tried
- every different one I could think of), a program I set up to debug
- the thing says "write failed: could only write 10240 of 20480 bytes".
- Reads are similar: If I read 20K blocks, the read says it read 20K, but in
- actual fact only put 10K in the buffer. No matter the blocksize, it
- is always out by 50%.
- My Viper 2150S Drive works fine.
- I have no idea why it does this, but I am getting annoyed enough to start
- "hacking". I have though of putting a wrapper around the st01read and
- st01write to double and halve the block counts as appropriate - any reason
- this wont work?
- Also, the drive *floods* the SCSI bus *much* more than the 150 drive..
- (Yes, I have tried all sorts of combinations of the jumpers...)
-
- Anybody else seen this?
-
- -Peter
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