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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Does Irix 3.3.2 support DAT tape devices?
- Keywords: DAT
- Message-ID: <pkuobp0@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 17:08:39 GMT
- References: <paraska.6.716040404@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <paraska.6.716040404@oasys.dt.navy.mil> paraska@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Paraska) writes:
- | I've installed a Python DAT tape drive in a 4D30 PI and haven't had much
- | success using it. I seem to be able to tar to it, but can't get the data
- | back off of it. Sara Kunz has been quite helpful with other aspects of
- | tape usage and automatic backup, but she wasn't sure if Pre-4.0 Irix releases
- | supported the DAT tape device. I've looked in the man pages (mt, mtio, tar,
- | tps, etc.) but haven't found a reference to a DAT device.
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- It isn't supported under 3.3.X. That said, I do know of people that
- have used it (with the switches set to default to SCSI 1 mode, not the
- SCSI 2 mode we require under 4.0) as a basicly high capacity QIC
- drive (no variable block sizes, no audio, etc. etc.). hinv will report
- the type as 'unknown'. If that works for you, great, but if it
- doesn't, you'll have to upgrade, or use a different drive.
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