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From: daveh@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (David M. Holloway)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R and DAT Drives
Date: 3 Jan 1995 13:32:44 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley
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>
>I have observed the same problem. Tar stopped writing when in the
>middle of the tape... (DG90M).
>No problems so far with dump, but mt doesn't recognize the media type.
>
>Andreas
>
>

hmm I dunno if this is directly related but sometimes
tar fails for my 
aha0 targ 2 lun 0: <SANKYO  CP150           4.64>
restarting the drive seems to fix it.(bus problem?)
and I have never been able to append to an existing tar 
:wq

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