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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: BACKUP 4.x behavior on 5.x VMS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.180824.844@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 02:08:24 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.172203.16985@b11.b11.ingr.com>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
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- In article <1992Nov6.172203.16985@b11.b11.ingr.com>, wilson@b11.b11.ingr.com (Jon Wilson) writes:
- > I have a device driver which lets a VAX use a tape drive on a remote
- > system. Unfortunately, when a BACKUP operation reaches end-of-tape,
- > rewinds and unloads, the drive receives the mount request from BACKUP
- > and immediately loads the first tape back in and overwrites it.
- >
- > What I'm looking for is a way to get BACKUP to behave as it did in the
- > old VMS 4.x days - prompt the user for volume changes - on VMS 5.4.
-
- You must be doing something wrong in your driver. Remote Tape Facility, which
- is a commercial product allowing access to tape drives over DECnet, does not
- show this behavior. Nor does BACKUP under V5 do this with a local tape drive.
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
- (Remote Tape Facility designer and developer)
- Internet: jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
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