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From: wmbfmk@rwa.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: What tapes can my scsi streamer read?
Date: 26 Feb 1994 10:38:58 +0100
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de (Udo Wolter) writes:

>In article <wmbfmk.762094312@rwc.urc.tue.nl> wmbfmk@rwc.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen) writes:

>»>them.
>»
>»I would like to try that. However, I don't have any MSDOS software for my
>»SCSI tapestreamer. Is there any freeware/shareware that you (or anybody
>»else) know of? I have looked at simtel, but could not find anything.

>ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de:/pub/msdos/mirrors/simtel/msdos/dskutl/gtak100.zip
>ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de:/pub/msdos/gnuish/gtar110.zip

>Both of them are adaptions of the GNU tar program and both have SCSI support.
>But you need the ASPI drivers (e.g. ASPI4DOS.SYS) from Adaptec to work with
>them ! 

>Bye,
>	Udo
Thanks, 

I have tried it, but it still didn't work. Is the Wangtek supposed to be
able to read 60 MB tapes? (It's a Wangtek 5525 ES)
When I tried erasing a tape, it would spin for a minute or two and
return with no error. However when I then try to write something on the
tape from MSDOS, it hangs. When I try to write something on it from
NetBSD it gives an input/output error on /dev/rst0.



Marc van Kempen