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- From: lockhart@eecom.gatech.edu (John B. Lockhart)
- Subject: Sun "Archive Python" Tape Drive
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.023035.11992@ee.gatech.edu>
- Sender: news@ee.gatech.edu
- Organization: Computer Engineering Group, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0250
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 02:30:35 GMT
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- My boss had a few dozen Sun 150 meg tape drives lying about gathering dust,
- so I thought I'd snarf one and use it to backup my 'station with. Wrong.
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- I connected it on it's lonesome (as SCSI id 4) to the NeXT, with a terminator,
- and get I/O errors on all read/writes with gnutar.
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- The NeXT recognizes the device by name, /dev/rst0 does cause the drive to
- whirr/rewind the tape on close, mt will write an eof to the tape, and I'm
- sure I've got the blocking factor right (126). I've also tried it without
- the terminator, and with a different terminator.
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- Any ideas on how to get rid o' the I/O errors?
-
- --John
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