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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: MT-02 
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 12:15:31 GMT
Message-ID: <CC3zDw.Iu0@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
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In article <match.21.0@> match@ (Marvin Match) writes:
> Has anyone been successfull in using the Emulex Mt-02 QIC-SCSI controller
> board with a QIC 24,36, or 02 tape drive under NetBSD or 386BSD?

I was JUST ABOUT to post something about that.

I'm using an MT-02 with an archive 59xx 60MB drive. It works (it's
recognised by my 1540B, and I can read/write data), but it's kinda flakey:
it doesn't handle bad patches on the tape at all, and I get a lot of weird
errors (like, empty messages!). Also, the controller claims 91000 blocks
of 512 bytes (which comes to 45M, not 60M) and I can actually only write
about 63000 blocks on any of the tapes I have. That's about half the
capacity I expected. I was going to put that down to streaming overhead
but it's streaming pretty well (much better than the Intel Multibus boxes
at work!).
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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