[rouilj@ra.cs.umb.edu: Re: gnu mt and dd]

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From: Karl Berry
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 05:50

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GNU dd and GNU mt on a Sun 4/490 running 4.1.2 have trouble talking to
an Exabyte drive.  (At least I'm pretty sure /dev/nrst12 is an Exabyte.)

I realize that without the actual tape in question, you probably
can't do anything about this, but on the offchance that this will be
useful, I'm passing it along.

From: "John P. Rouillard" <rouilj@ra.cs.umb.edu>
To: karl@ra.cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry)

	gnu dd   if=/dev/nrst12

(console screen reported DMA on odd byte alignment)

gnu dd returned immediately with no data. This was after it had
produced data from the first file correctly.

	gnu mt -f /dev/rst12 status

returned bogus info about the location on the tape when compared with
/bin/mt.

-- John

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