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From: tom@engc.bu.edu (Thomas P. Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: DDS2 DAT problems!
Date: 30 Mar 1996 03:01:15 GMT
Organization: Boston University
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I am trying to get an HP 1533 DDS2 DAT drive running with BSDI 2.1.
The ST driver recognizes the drive, but all attempts to dump to it 
seem to fail. I have tried using /dev/nrst0_ddsII and various combinations
and nothing seems to work. I get end of tape detected erros and various
other errors. Also, the MT command does not seem to change the block size.
I wanted to try using 512 bytes. MT returns a blocksize of 9 no matter what
one type to change it. 1-24 is reported initially but then 9 for ALL
changes. I would deeply appreciate anyone's help. 

PS: Using an Adaptec 1542 controller.