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Date:      Thu, 21 Oct 1999 00:40:07 GMT
From:      mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To:        hackett@rapdat.com (Nathan Hackett Admin)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Seagate  STT20000N scsi tape drive
Message-ID:  <380e6061.1200751168@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <MAIL380D4C28.13F38D3F@rapdat.com>
References:  <MAIL380C0E14.59E6096@rapdat.com> <380c5808.1067527032@mail.sentex.net> <MAIL380D4C28.13F38D3F@rapdat.com>

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On 20 Oct 1999 01:00:09 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:

>Thanks for the tip.  I tried what you suggested, but I got the same result.  I
>changed the number of filemarks to one (it was two), rewrote the archive with
>tar -c, but tar -u results in the same error.

I know there have been some changes to the tape system since 3.2.  You
might try updating to 3.3.  I am using one of these drives with some luck,
although the tapes seem to go bad far too often.

sa0: <Seagate STT20000N 7.11> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device 
sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)


	---Mike

>
>Any other ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>
>/nathan
>
>Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
>> On 19 Oct 1999 02:23:38 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:
>>
>> >I have a Seagate  STT20000N 20 GB scsi tape drive on a Tyan Thunder 100
>> >running FreeBSD3.2.
>>
>> Try
>>
>> /usr/bin/mt seteotmodel 1
>>
>>         ---Mike
>> Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)
>> Sentex Communications Corp,
>> Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
>> "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers
>> could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)
>
>
>
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Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)		
Sentex Communications Corp,   		
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers 
could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)


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