Re: SCSI tape drive problems

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From: Dave Olson
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 02:59

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In <1992Dec9.163228.8922@doug.cae.wisc.edu> spy@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu (Mark W. Spychalla) writes:
| 
| 2) I also have a
| 
| Exabyte EXB-8200 8mm Cartridge tape drive.
| 
| I can create tar archives just fine on the device: "tar cvf /dev/rxt0  
| files"
| It also reads them just fine:                      "tar tvf /dev/rxt0"
| However, the append function fails:                "tar rvf /dev/rxt0  
| moreFiles"
| 
| I believe this fails because 8mm drives cannot perform a backspace one  
| record
| followed by a write record.  Does anyone have a 8mm drive which reliably
| performs the appending of files to a tar archive already on tape?  Can 8mm
| drives perform the append function?

None of the 820X or 850X drives can do the tar style append
operation.  Most DAT drives do it fine.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com

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