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In article <1989Nov6.192632.9113@arnor.uucp>, uri@gondor.UUCP (Uri Blumenthal) writes:
> From article by luner@werewolf.CS.WISC.EDU (David L. Luner):
> > 
> > If I recall correctly, and I'll check tonight, a -002 *can* read tapes 
> > written by a -001, but not the other way around. (And there is no way
> > to make a -002 write tapes in such a way that a -001 can read them).

I've verified that this is true.

> OK, another question from the same group (:-). Can ANYTHING in the
> Universe (except another RT, or another 6157-002 :-) *read* the tape
> written by a -002 ? Is it QIC-???, or what?

I've had success in reading tapes written on 6157-002's with Mountain 
tape drives under SCO Xenix... Vise versa as well... I generally use
tar for everything I do... However, I haven't had any success in taking
an RT tape to work and reading it on the Apollo's.  The Apollo's seem
to choke on something.  This is under SR9.7 and SR10.1 under both BSD4.x
and SYS5Rx, however I have had limited success in reading an Apollo
written tape on the 6157-002... Generally what happens is the RT will
read about the first track on the tape and then return a "directory
checksum" error.  If I use the -h option with tar, the tape drive just
goes back and reads the same stuff over and over again just asking me
to "insert the next volume and press return".  I've tried several
different block sizes and nothing seems to work... I don't know what's
at fault here, whether it's the RT, the Apollo's, or a combination of
both...  It took 3 tries before I finally managed to get GNUEMACS
from work to my RT...

BTW: Has anyone actually managed to get GNU 18.51 to work on an RT
under AIX 2.2.1??? I can get it to compile without problems but when
I run the executable, it just returns "killed"... "sdb" won't read the
sucker in at all... In fact, trying to use sdb on xemacs just hung the
machine...   If anyone has ANY diff's at all for GNU18.51 for AIX I'd
be forever in your debt if you sent them to me... AOS people need not
send their sympathies.  I'm jealous enough as it is...

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