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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!wlbr!WLV.IIPO.GTEGSC.COM!sms From: sms@WLV.IIPO.GTEGSC.COM (Steven M. Schultz) Subject: Re: DAT tape drives Message-ID: <Cw1zvH.HLy@wlbr.iipo.gtegsc.com> Sender: news@wlbr.iipo.gtegsc.com (System Administrator) Organization: GTE Government Systems Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 05:42:53 GMT References: <Cw0L3A.BL0@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Lines: 21 In article <Cw0L3A.BL0@ucc.su.OZ.AU> ianw@cassius (Ian Wynne) writes: >Does anyone know of any compatiblity problems between Sony SD 5000 and >HP 35470A DAT tape drives. It may not be a drive compatibility problem, but rather a 'driver' incompatibility. >A friend of mine is writing the full distribution of FreeBSD to DAT using >a Sun Sparc 1000 fitted with a Sony SD 5000 DAT. The Sun is running Solaris. I believe Suns write 'variable' records and *BSD* (including BSDI) write and read 'fixed' records. >When I try reading the tape on my pc running FreeBSD 1.1(gamma), I get the >following error "128104-byte record too big". My pc has a HP 35470A DAT. That's similar to the error I used to get. If the Sun can be told to write 'fixed record' mode you likely will be able to read the tapes. Steven