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- From: MACRVM.NRL.NAVY.MIL (JEFF JAMES)
- Subject: DAT SCSI COMMANDS ON SGI INDIGO
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- Organization: NAVAL RESEARCH LAB.
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:58:55 GMT
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- I have an SGI Iris Indigo Elan with a DAT drive installed and would like
- to operate the drive with raw SCSI commands. I can write to the drive and
- rewind the tape as well as read using the SCSI commands in dslib.h but there
- are several commands missing that control the tape such as functions for
- writing file marks, seeking data on the tape and writing EOT's. Any info on
- this subject would be greatly appreciated.
-
- PS Any info on general DAT storage formats would be appreciated.
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- Thanks ,
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- Jeff James
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