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Article #9696Re: 60M QIC incompatibilities between Sun-3s?
From: Jeff Weber
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1988 21:09
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1988 21:09
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shollen%odin.Wright.EDU@relay.cs.net (Sheila Hollenbaugh) writes: >Recently we have had a problem with tape compatibility between 60M QIC >tape drives on Sun systems. The systems are a 3/280 and two 3/60s, all >running Sun-OS 3.X. The symptoms are as follows: the 280 cannot read tar >tapes which are written by the 60's, but the 60's can read tar tapes >written by the 280. >... 1/4in tape of the type that Sun sells is not spec'd to be capable of going between machines. It is spec'd to be able to read back into the same machine that wrote the type. This little bit of info bit us big time when we couldn't distribute our product. The best you can do is to buy a drive qualifier that checks that your drives are very close to spec and then they should be able to pass tapes between them. It seems that each drive is a little off and it shows between machines. We had the same problems as you spoke of.... Jeff
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: cg-atla!weber@decvax.UUCP (Jeff Weber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: 60M QIC incompatibilities between Sun-3s? Message-ID: <6206@cg-atla.UUCP> Date: 15 Dec 88 21:09:33 GMT References: <8811171630.AA26372@odin.Wright.EDU> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 18 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 5 Dec 88 19:00:59 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 58, message 2 of 14 X-Issue-Reference: v7n31