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Re: hardware questions - tar to dat drive and ati rage 2c card under x

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Harondel J. Sibble (help@pdscc.com)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:26:58 -0800

On 17 Jan 99, at 22:02, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:

> On 17 Jan 99, at 21:00, Brian Edmonds wrote:
>
> > All SCSI tape drives under Linux have the same device, it doesn't vary
> > by make and model. The first drive is /dev/st0 (and /dev/nst0 for the
> > non-rewinding interface).
> and both come up with
>
> tar (granchild) : cannot write to dev/st0. input/output error
> tar (granchild) : error is not recoverable, exiting now

well after some info from Steve <steve@hendrix.postino.com>
the problem is sort of solved, the above error messages still exist with the
exabyte minicartridge (1/4 inch) scsi drive, but when I used my hp dat
drive, all works fine, weird.....

Harondel J. Sibble
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