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- From: patl@bodacia.Eng.Sun.COM (Pat Lashley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Tape question, part 2
- Message-ID: <lj9knkINNgp2@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 20:09:24 GMT
- Reply-To: patl@bodacia.Eng.Sun.COM
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
- Lines: 48
- NNTP-Posting-Host: asimov
-
- Thanks to everyone who pointed me at BTNtape and the GNU tar port, but I
- still don't quite have it working. I'm not sure whether I don't have
- the mountlist entry set up right, or if there's a 2.1 incompatability
- somewhere.
-
- Configuration:
- Amiga 2000 (no acceleration, `Normal' chipset)
- 2.1 OS/ROMS
- GVP HC+ with 8M SIMMS, no on-board disk
- Quantum ProDrive 105S in the bay (SCSI target 2)
- Archive Viper 150M cartridge tape in the bay (SCSI target 1)
-
- This works fine for backup/restore via QuarterBack, the problem is strictly
- with attempting to transfer data between the Ami and a SPARCstation (unix).
- I picked up BTNtape and GNU tar from wuarchive. After reading the BTNtape
- docs, I created the following mountlist entry:
-
- TAPE: Handler = L:btn-handler
- Startup = "gvpscsi.device/UN-1/BS-512/NB-128/BT-4"
- StackSize = 4000
- Priority = 5
- GlobVec = -1
- Mount = 1
-
- It seemed to mount OK, so I tried gnutar. It complained about not having
- arp.library. So I downloaded the 1.3 ARP distribution and installed the
- library. It works fine when extracting from a tarfile on the harddisk.
- (Copied over via PC-DOS floppy.) But when extracting from tape the tape
- moves back and forth for a few seconds then I get a `Please insert volume
- local in any drive' requester. After about four cancels the tar proceeds,
- or the system crashes (which seems to be random.) When attempting to
- extract from a tarfile on a PC-DOS disk, the requestor was always followed
- by a crash.
-
-
- Any clues?
-
-
-
- Thanks,
- -Pat
-
-
-
-
- ---
- PMLashley plashley@Sun.COM SunSoft:NeWS/TNT
- "Those who do not know NeWS are doomed to recreate it - badly."
-