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- From: jlloyd@adapcal.UUCP (John Lloyd)
- Subject: Re: Still have troubles with gnu tar, Sankyo drive, and Adaptec
- Organization: Adaptec Inc., California
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:17:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.161747.6492@adapcal.UUCP>
- References: <1993Jan11.090602.8316@weyrich.UUCP>
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- In article <1993Jan11.090602.8316@weyrich.UUCP> uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville writes:
- >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
- >
- > "Fatal SCSI error: Cannot access device TAPE$2, return code 31"
- >
- >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
- >
- OS2ASPI.DMD is not required for version 2.0 of GTAR. The new driver
- provided in that version (SCSITAPE.DMD) talks directly to the ADD. You
- might want to try the original version of GTAR that was released; it
- does use OS2ASPI.DMD. I have used this version on several different tape
- drives without any problems.
-
- jlloyd@adapcal.com
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