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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Bradley Benson <brad@centralmhmr.org>
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Subject: Re: HP Atapi Tape Drive 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 May 2000 16:28:31 -0400."
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On Thu, 04 May 2000 16:28:31 -0400, Bradley Benson wrote:

> I have a HP Colorado 8 GB (4GB Native) tape drive. I'm running
> 4.0-200000208-CURRENT. I get the following dmesg on startup.
> 
> ast0: TAPE <HP COLORADO 8GB> at ata1-slave using PIO4
> 
> when I run something like "tar -cf /dev/rast0 file" the tape drive light
> will come on and the drive will access the tape. After about two seconds
> all activity will stop and the command will lock.

This is a shot in the dark, but try this instead:

	tar -cf /dev/ast0 file

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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