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Problems with EXABYTE drives; questions concerning DAT drives.

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From: Laura Guy
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:49
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hello.

a few months ago i sent mail to the group concerning the problem
we have using our newly acquired EXABYTE drive with our NeXT.  our
main purpose for purchasing this drive was to create and append to
TAR archives.  there seems to a problem with the NeXT AND the
EXABYTE in that we cannot append to a TAR archive.

my question concerns DAT drives.  are there people out there who can
absolutely CONFIRM that they can use such a drive, which is attached
to their NeXT, and that it will create a TAR archive and then append
to that same archive?

i would appreciate any confirmations, and particularly a description
of the DAT (company, etc).

if anyone out there as had luck with doing TAR appends to an 
EXABYTE, could you please send me mail as well?

thanks much!

laura guy
data and program library service
university of wisconsin-madison

guy@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu
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From: guy@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu (Laura Guy)
Subject: Problems with EXABYTE drives; questions concerning DAT drives.
Date: 26 Jan 93 12:49:29 CST
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