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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!gazette.engr.sgi.com!anchor.engr.sgi.com!olson From: olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com (Dave Olson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Reading a 4mm tape made by a Sparc Date: 28 Nov 1994 02:56:41 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3bbgt9$ic0@gazette.engr.sgi.com> References: <CzE9Go.AsF@news.unr.edu> <JKH.94Nov17082734@freefall.cdrom.com> <3av2da$lmn@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de> <CzqAs4.6BF@news.unr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: anchor.engr.sgi.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) eblood@pogonip.scs.unr.edu (Eric V. Blood) writes: | Actually it was a compressed tape from the Sparc trying to be read | by a drive that couldn't read compressed tapes. Once I specified | the lower density on the Sparc, everything worked out. The question | is, why does the compressed tape screw up the computer so bad? Firmware bugs on the tape drive. The older Ardat 4320 drives have/had this problem, although the latest firmware fixes it. Other drive vendors may have similar problems. -- The most beautiful things in the world are | Dave Olson those from which all excess weight has been | Silicon Graphics removed. -Henry Ford | olson@sgi.com