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From: loodvrij%cyb@fredbox.cts.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: HELP: How do I tell which QIC-?? interface?
Message-ID: <Tmac7B1w165w@cyb.cojones.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 93 14:50:28 ADT
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j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch) writes:
> In article <1993Jun30.175919.11169@news.uta.edu> sholder@cse.uta.edu (Shane A
> >
> >I have an Archive VP150 tape drive. I know it's a QIC device but I
> >don't know which one.[...]
> >A friend of mine
> >suspects it's a QIC-80.
>
> Your friend is wrong. Though the Archive Viper is using QIC's (which
> simply means quarter-inch cartridge), it has a SCSI interface. I'm
> succesfully using it along with an Adaptec 1542-{A,B} and Julian's
> SCSI drivers.
Speaking of tape drives, I have an Archive 525Meg tape w/ Adaptec 1542C
and NetBSD 0.8, and am having some problems with it. I can tar to it and
read the results back just fine, but thats about all i can do.
Dump seems to work OK, it writes and the tape streams, but restore won't
touch it - the drive light comes on and restore just sits there.
I'm also having trouble reading tapes that were written on the same hardware
under DOS and the APSI version of GNU tar.
And is there any way I can get it to read QIC-24 tar tapes that were written on
an old Sun 3? The Archive manual says it should be able to read them, but I've
had no success.
I'm just using the stock NetBSD stuff, no patches, do I need anything else?
Thanks.
Bruce
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