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- From: etxpnil@etxsj.ericsson.se (Per Nilsson)
- Subject: Re: BTNTape driver
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.093755.6324@ericsson.se>
- Sender: etxpnil@etxsj (Per Nilsson TT/SJG Dept.Operator)
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- Organization: ERICSSON Telecom, Stockholm Sweden
- References: <1992Aug12.082256.5045@ericsson.se> <22832@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 09:37:55 GMT
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- In article <22832@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>, johnl@SDFSERV.hac.com (John Lee) writes:
- |> In article <1992Aug12.082256.5045@ericsson.se> etxpnil@etxsj.ericsson.se (Per Nilsson) writes:
- |> >I've connected a tape drive to my Amiga 3000, the drive is supposed
- |> >to be a 150M drive. But when I try to write to it by using BTNTape and
- |> >gnutar, only 60M is written before I'm asked to insert the next volume.
- |> >Do I have to initialize the tape for 150M storage before I write to it ?
- |> >The tapedrive used to sit in a SUN server if it's any help.
- |> >
- |> >Any suggestions ?
- |>
- |> Can you give a few more details, like the drive make and model and the
- |> tape you're using (DC600A, DC6150, etc.)?
- |>
- |> It sounds like the tape drive is using a lower-capacity encoding standard
- |> like QIC-120 by default and you'd like to use the higher-capacity standard
- |> like QIC-150. If it's similar to my A3070 SCSI tape drive, you'll need to
- |> send a SCSI MODE_SELECT command to make the drive use the higher-capacity
- |> standard. It's pretty simple with BTNTape, but a tech manual for the
- |> drive that describes the particular MODE_SELECT needed would be very
- |> helpful.
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- The label on the drive says Wangtek model no 5099EN24, I haven't found any
- tech manual for the drive so I'm really hooping that someone knows
- anything about this drive. But the drive used to be in a SUN Server,
- isn't things like MODE_SELECT the same on all drives ?
- The tape I used was a Carlisle DC6150 and they have worked fine before on
- the SUN server.
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- - etxpnil@etxsj.ericsson.se
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