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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!maxed!ed
- From: ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)
- Subject: Re: ARCHIVE SCSI ST525 TAPE AND ISC UNIX 3.01 WONT WRITE
- Message-ID: <BxEo9r.4IK@maxed.amg.com>
- Organization: American Micro Group, Ft. Lee NJ
- References: <1dh71nINN52o@uwm.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 16:25:00 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1dh71nINN52o@uwm.edu> peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Peter J Diaz de Leon) writes:
- >I recently bought a Archive ST525 SCSI tape drive and
- >am running it on a DPT EISA SCSI controler under
- >ISC UNIX SYS 5 R3 V:3.0.1
- >
- >The tape drive has been set for SCSI ID 2.
- >I am able to use the "mt" command to retension
- >and rewind and erase the tape in the drive.
- >The mt command with the "-v" option gives me
- >the following:
- >
- > Found scsi tape:
- > speed = 0
- > flags = 0x2118
- > spare = 0
- > media = 0
- > recsiz = 512
- >
- > Rewind status 0
- >
- >However, when I try to write out to the tape
- >using tar or cpio I get:
- >
- >I/O error on write(), errno 5, I/O error
- >
- >I get a very similar message if I try to read of
- >a tape made on another machine.
- >
- >By the way the tape in the tape drive is a
- >DC6150. I have not had a chance to go and buy
- >6525 tapes yet. Could this be the problem?
-
- No, that's not the problem. Do you know that the drive works?
-
- What is the tar or cpio command you give to write to or read from
- the tape device?
-
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