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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ARCHIVE Viper QIC-150 problems Date: 3 Jul 1996 00:16:10 -0500 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4rcvmq$h4@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4rb25f$9nd@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Christopher Forkin (forkin@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) wrote: : ARCHIVE Viper QIC-150 streamer (hooked to the Adaptec 1542B) : the symptoms: : tar/dump/mt work as expected apart from the fact that the streamer doesn't : stream the data onto the tape but seams to write something rewind the tape : check the data and write the next bit and so on. In other words when I write : something on the tape the streamer drives me up the wall by constantly : winding the tape back and forth :( I have no suggestions, just that I had a 2150S for years, and it streamed perfectly ever since 386BSD+pk1. It's been de-commissioned for about a year now, but I never had any problems with it. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....