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- From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Subject: Still have troubles with gnu tar, Sankyo drive, and Adaptec
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.090602.8316@weyrich.UUCP>
- Sender: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
- Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 09:06:02 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- Hello again -- still need help :-(
-
- I have an Adaptec 1542B that works fine with a Maxtor hard disk and NEC
- CD-ROM. But I can't get the "gtak201" version of gnu tar to work with my
- Sankyo CP-150SE tape drive [a clone of wang 5150SE maybe?].
-
- No matter what I try I get the message
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- "Fatal SCSI error: Cannot access device TAPE$2, return code 31"
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- when I try to use the "tape ret" command.
-
- I have tried disabling the CD-ROM in my config.sys.
-
- I have tried both the GA-SP and 2.1 beta.
-
- On the advice of someone on the net, I have added ASPI support, so that the
- relevant entries in my config.sys are [these are at the end]:
-
- BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD
- SET TAPE=+++TAPE$2
- SET TAPEMODE=0
- BASEDEV=SCSITAPE.DMD TAPE$2 A0 2 S0
-
- Has anyone gotten a similar configration to work? How about a WangDat with
- gtak and Adaptec 1542B and GA+SP or 2.1 Beta?
-
- Any differences in your config.sys? Any other tape drives that are
- inexpensive and available in the U.S. that work?
-
- Any other HPFS-aware backup software that works with my hardware?
-
- Any OS/2 or DOS-based diagnostic programs that might be useful in
- probing the origin of my problems?
-
- Advice gratefully accepted.
-
-
- orville
-
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