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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!chalmers.se!me.chalmers.se!dana From: dana@me.chalmers.se (Dan Andersson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Tape on 386bsd... Message-ID: <14330@chalmers.se> Date: 19 Sep 92 22:30:09 GMT Sender: news@chalmers.se Lines: 24 Hi there net... I've been using the 386bsd for a while now without any crashes. But... I have a 60 Mb Wangtek streamer at irq 5 and io 300. I can read tapes from various machines, Suns and DEC-stations. But... When i create a tape and try to read it, i receive error after a few blocks. I'm using my ol'e VAXstation 2000 as a backup-media via ftp. But after i discovered that the old TK50-f3 is 'working' on my adaptec controller, i will try to get rid of the VAX due to a 1:20 speed factor. I get the same errors, Qic02 with separate controller or TK50 on SCSI. It's possible to write, but not read. If i read the tape with cpio or tar, i receive error almost immediately. When using dd, i can read the tape but it bombs out when i try to tar or cpio the info from harddisk. Tar, cpio and dd works on tapes written on any other machines but mine The error or bug, have to be in 386bsd, but in both wt-driver and as-driver ?! Any hints anyone... Dan Andersson //// dana@theta.me.chalmers.se