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Date:      Mon, 8 Sep 1997 00:17:04 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tape question
Message-ID:  <19970908001704.DW50899@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970907133303.28359G-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>; from Brian N. Handy on Sep 7, 1997 13:37:16 -0700
References:  <199709072013.NAA25379@usr07.primenet.com> <Pine.OSF.3.96.970907133303.28359G-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>

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As Brian N. Handy wrote:

> Maybe more information would be useful here, I'm not sure.  I'll detail a
> bit better the situation as I know it:
> 
>  1.  The tapes were written on a Sun box.  (FWIW, they're Solar
>      Magnetogram data from the Mees Solar Observatory in Hawaii.  I don't
>      mean to sound proprietary, I'm assuredly not.)  I can't say as to
>      whether it's SunOS or Solaris, though I could find out Monday.
>      The tapes are old and already written with partial block writes.

Sorry, i neither have an Exabyte available right now, nor could i try
it immediately on a Sun.  (If at all, only under Solaris.)  My only
point was to prove that the FreeBSD st(4) driver behaves as i would
expect it.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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