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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!caamora!jmichaels From: jmichaels@caamora.mpx.com.au (Jonathan Michaels) Date: 30 Dec 94 17:30:51 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: tandberg tdc 3800 Message-ID: <929_9412310430@caamora.mpx.com.au> X-FTN-To: imb@asstdc.scgt.oz.au Organization: Caamora, Randwick NSW Australia Lines: 34 Hello imb@asstdc.scgt.oz.au! 29 Dec 94 18:02, imb@asstdc.scgt.oz.au wrote to All: : MT STATUS keeps telling me, 07: unknown tape drive, even after I've used : TAR CVH to successfully write a tape. i> As discussed (over the 'phone :-)) .. an initial "tar cvh .. " i> seems to make it work (with or without the 'h') forever i> thereafter or until the next reboot .. :-) The plot thickens .. I tried again today and yes it does write and then reread the archive, even after leaving out the write density parameter, but, whenever mt touches the tape drive what ever was on the tape magically disappears. If i write a QIC-525 tape then reboot, the tape will yield its contents. Though if i change tape types either to 150 or 250, the original 525 fails to respond to tar tv and mt -f /dev/(pick a raw tape device) just drops error messages and a some confused characters on the screen .. then the tape drive goes out to lunch, untill the next reboot. stranger and stranger .. has anyone else had any experience this setting up "esoteric" tape drives ? Jonathan -- CAAMORA (InterNet Services) __________________________________________ PO Box 2036 bbs +61 2 3100771 Clovelly NSW 2031 Australia fax +61 2 3100771 --------------------------------------- <jmichaels@caamora.mpx.com.au>