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- From: karl@claude.cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry)
- Subject: [rouilj@ra.cs.umb.edu: Re: gnu mt and dd]
- Message-ID: <199301081550.AA10348@claude.cs.umb.edu>
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- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:50:44 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- GNU dd and GNU mt on a Sun 4/490 running 4.1.2 have trouble talking to
- an Exabyte drive. (At least I'm pretty sure /dev/nrst12 is an Exabyte.)
-
- I realize that without the actual tape in question, you probably
- can't do anything about this, but on the offchance that this will be
- useful, I'm passing it along.
-
- From: "John P. Rouillard" <rouilj@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- To: karl@ra.cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry)
-
- gnu dd if=/dev/nrst12
-
- (console screen reported DMA on odd byte alignment)
-
- gnu dd returned immediately with no data. This was after it had
- produced data from the first file correctly.
-
- gnu mt -f /dev/rst12 status
-
- returned bogus info about the location on the tape when compared with
- /bin/mt.
-
- -- John
-
-