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- From: sjansen@vms.macc.wisc.edu
- Subject: Re: Problems with EXABYTE tape drive
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.182352.28047@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
- Date: 24 JAN 93 12:16:22
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- In article <1993Jan22.200938.22220@das.harvard.edu>, chen@speed.uucp (Lilei Chen) writes...
-
- >On our site we use EXABYTE tape drive for backup purpose. But we
- >can not get more than 500MB on a 112M tape which is supposed to be
- >able to hold more than 2GB according to the specification. We have
- >about five drives and all behave the same way. We even tried it on
- >a PC with an ADAPTEC SCSI controler, but the result is the same.
- >EXABYTE claimed that they don't know anything about the possible
- >cause. So I am asking the net if anyone has encountered similar
- >problems with EXABYTE tape drive and/or knows its possible cause.
- >Thanks.
- >
- >Jim (xue@cfaft5.harvard.edu)
-
- Do all of your Exabytes have the same hardware revision level? I had an
- Exabyte that had the same behavior when I changed the ROMs. Sorry, I cant
- recall what the revision level was, but I fell back on our old ROMS (425A)
- and the problem went away.
-
- Stephan
- jansen@madraf.astro.wisc.edu
-