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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problems
- Message-ID: <tql08hc@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Dec9.163228.8922@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 02:59:28 GMT
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- In <1992Dec9.163228.8922@doug.cae.wisc.edu> spy@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu (Mark W. Spychalla) writes:
- |
- | 2) I also have a
- |
- | Exabyte EXB-8200 8mm Cartridge tape drive.
- |
- | I can create tar archives just fine on the device: "tar cvf /dev/rxt0
- | files"
- | It also reads them just fine: "tar tvf /dev/rxt0"
- | However, the append function fails: "tar rvf /dev/rxt0
- | moreFiles"
- |
- | I believe this fails because 8mm drives cannot perform a backspace one
- | record
- | followed by a write record. Does anyone have a 8mm drive which reliably
- | performs the appending of files to a tar archive already on tape? Can 8mm
- | drives perform the append function?
-
- None of the 820X or 850X drives can do the tar style append
- operation. Most DAT drives do it fine.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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