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From: jbev@iscden.jbsys.com (Jim Bevier - J B Systems)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: QIC-02 problems
Message-ID: <1992Aug2.042036.13752@jbsys.com>
Date: 2 Aug 92 04:20:36 GMT
Sender: jbev@jbsys.com (Jim Bevier - J B Systems)
Organization: J B Systems on HiPeak, Morrison, Co.
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I was able to gen in my tape drive into system (int 5 , addr 338)
and was able to read tar tapes from an SCO UNIX system.  However,
when I write tapes, all appears to be O.K., but the data is not
on the tape.  I get skipping... error when I try to do a tar -tvf
/dev/rwt0.  The tape also has errors on the SCO UNIX system.
Has anybody had this error on the wt tape?  Is there a DMA problem
that writes just part of the data?

BTW:  I was able to gen in the lpt driver and get it to work
with a LJ III printer.  I had to hack the #include's in lpt.c,
but it seems to work fine.  I am using device 14 (E) for the LP.
I made a node lpt0 and linked it to lp0 and lp.  It works fine.
I have not tried the lp.c posted earlier to this group.

BTW2:  If I let my system set at the # prompt for 30 or more
minutes, the system will lock up and I have to re-boot.  Has
anybody seen this?  Is this a hardware problem, or is there a
console driver problem?  It does not happen all of the time.

Thanks for any help,

Jim Bevier
jbev@jbsys.com


P.S.  Has anyone got a TB+ modem to work with 386BSD?  I have not 
tried it yet, but want to.

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