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From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Subject: Re: dat on bsd?
Message-ID: <q21nmk8@sgi.sgi.com>
Sender: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1992 15:29:49 GMT
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jks@teal.csn.org (John Stevenson) writes:
+---------------
|  I am looing for a dat driver for 386bsd.
| The drive is an archive 4520. scsi 2 capable.
| I heard that one was posted a while ago, does
| anyone know where to get it?
+---------------

The normal 386bsd SCSI driver works fine (for modest block sizes), provided
you make Scott Burris's 2-line patch for variable length tape devices (posted
some time ago). I'm happily using an Archive 4520 DAT to back up my 1.5 GB
Maxtor disk...


-Rob

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Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510		rpw3@sgi.com
Silicon Graphics, Inc.		(415)390-1673
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