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- From: flanigan@echo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dennis Flanigan)
- Subject: dd and mt strange behavior
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.140013.22856@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: NASA GSFC Code 910.1, TRMM Ground Truth
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:00:13 GMT
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- I notice something strange the other day while using the commands
- mt and dd with our SCSI 8mm and 9 track tape drive.
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- One person was using dd in a c shell script to read files from the
- 9 track drive. Another was using dd and mt commands to control an
- exabyte 8200 drive. When every commands were sent the 8mm, the 9 track
- drive would STOP reading while the command to the 8mm was being executed
- and then continue reading after the command to the 8mm was done.
-
- It this the way it is suppose to work?
-
- The 8mm has is set to SCSI id 2 and the 9 track (Kennedy 9612) is
- set to SCSI id 6. The Computer is a 4D35 running IRIX 4.0.4.
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
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- Dennis Flanigan Jr. | Goddard Space Flight Center
- Applied Research Corp. | Code 910.1
- flanigan@echo.gsfc.nasa.gov | (301) 286-6589
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