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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!160.45.4.4!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Archive Viper 150 help Date: 1 Jul 1997 21:22:45 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5pbsf5$686@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5pb362$5jk$1@spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43785 glewis@maths.adelaide.edu.au (Gregory D Lewis) wrote: > # mt status > st0: not ready > mt: /dev/nrst0: Device busy This means the drive didn't accept the tape, and returns a ``Not ready'' condition to the driver. I really suspect it doesn't grok 6525 tapes. QIC tapes are encoded using the BOT holes, and the drive needs to understand the encoding of the inserted cartridge. Only very old QIC-24 drives probably don't use the encoding, and use everything as a 60 MB cartridge. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)