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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7810 ; Tue, 26 Jan 93 09:00:50 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!tfs.com!julian From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: please help with SCSI tape and 386BSD! Message-ID: <1993Jan25.055719.25304@tfs.com> Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Berkeley, CA - 94704 References: <727481242rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> <727806169rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:57:19 GMT Lines: 45 In article <727806169rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes: >In article <727481242rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes: >>I have a SCSI tape drive (Tandberg 4120) and want to read 386BSD from >>it after installing the boot disk, which worked fine. I can prepare a >>tape with 386BSD under OS/2 but cannot read it under 386BSD. In fact, >>386BSD cannot read *anything* from the tape. >> [deleted] >> >>However, when I try to access the tape (even with cat, not only with >>tar), it streams a bit and when using "tar tv" I see one line with the >>contents of the first record (correct, BTW) and then I only get the >>message "length error". What is wrong here and what can I do? The record length handling code is broken in the present scsi tape driver, due to the accidental incusion of a well meaning but wrong patch. I am nearly ready to release a 'fixed' version, but I'm going to need guinea-pigs, as I have only variable record length drives to check it on. >> >Update: I have today tried a HP 35470A DAT drive and to my surprise it >works. It is a SCSI-2 device like the Tandberg streamer but unlike the >Tandberg it works fine. I suspect that they respond a bit differently >to SCSI commands. > >Does anyone know the fix for 386BSD to get the Tandberg working? BTW, >both the Tandberg and the HP DAT work fine under OS/2, so it's not a >fault in the hardware. hopefully the answer may be on the way. 8-) > >Kai Uwe Rommel julian +----------------------------------+ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / On assignment | / \ julian@tfs.com +------>x USA \ in a very strange | ( OZ ) 2118 Milvia st. Berkeley CA. \___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/ USA+(510) 704-3137(wk) \_/ \\ v