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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1713 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:54:51 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!udel!wupost!gumby!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!ucla-mic!pita!scott From: scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu (Scott Burris) Subject: Re: [386bsd] How do you use DAT? Message-ID: <scott.729887174@pita> Nntp-Posting-Host: pita.cns.ucla.edu References: <4105@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: 16 Feb 93 10:29:30 PST Lines: 19 mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (H. Murakami) writes: >I wonder how the DAT drive is seen from 386BSD. >Can it be regarded as a kind of QIC steamer >connected to the SCSI? >Thank you your advice in advance. I am using an Archive Python DAT drive using Julian's SCSI drivers. The standard SCSI driver does not work correctly without a patch, because support for variable length tape blocks is broken. Even with the patch, I've found that the standard drivers do not hand tape drives nearly as well as Julian's drivers. -- ---------- Scott Burris UCLA Campus Network Services cnetslb@oac.ucla.edu (310) 206-4860 - OR - scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu