Sun "Archive Python" Tape Drive

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From: John B. Lockhart
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 02:30

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My boss had a few dozen Sun 150 meg tape drives lying about gathering dust,
so I thought I'd snarf one and use it to backup my 'station with.  Wrong.

I connected it on it's lonesome (as SCSI id 4) to the NeXT, with a terminator,
and get I/O errors on all read/writes with gnutar.

The NeXT recognizes the device by name, /dev/rst0 does cause the drive to
whirr/rewind the tape on close, mt will write an eof to the tape, and I'm
sure I've got the blocking factor right (126).  I've also tried it without
the terminator, and with a different terminator.

Any ideas on how to get rid o' the I/O errors?

--John


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Subject: Sun "Archive Python" Tape Drive
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