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- From: "GWDGV1::MOELLER" <moeller@gwdgv1.dnet.gwdg.de>
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: RE: Tape driver probs.
- Message-ID: <9140444@MVB.SAIC.COM>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:19:17 +0100
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- <dave@chmeds.ac.nz> writes:
- > We have a non DEC tape drive on our unibus vax. It used to work well (VMS 4.x)
- > but has fallen into disuse.
- >
- > We wish to start reusing it VMS 5.4
- > but it does funny things when being written to.
- >
- > The unit inits and mounts OK but when a file is copied to the drive it
- > reads forward until it falls off the feed spool.
-
- Does that tape drive come with a special driver?
-
- If so, you need a driver adapted to the change of end-of-volume detection
- which was introduced in VMS 5.4 .
-
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