tan@bronson.UUCP (Tan Bronson) (09/27/89)
I've been able to write tapes which the Suns can read, but not
visa versa. I've got a Bell Technologies XTC controller and board
using the standard xenix tape drivers, and am running 2.3.3
Is there some combination I have not tried yet?
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Madison, CT 06443cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) (09/28/89)
In article <6@bronson.UUCP>, tan@bronson.UUCP (Tan Bronson) writes: > I've been able to write tapes which the Suns can read, but not > visa versa. I've got a Bell Technologies XTC controller and board > using the standard xenix tape drivers, and am running 2.3.3 > Is there some combination I have not tried yet? The Bell Tech drive (I assume you are using the 60 meg version) uses the QIC-24 data format on the tape. For a sun 3 this format is read/written on the /dev/rst8 port. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Conor P. Cahill uunet!virtech!cpcahil 703-430-9247 ! | Virtual Technologies Inc., P. O. Box 876, Sterling, VA 22170 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) (09/28/89)
tan@bronson.UUCP (Tan Bronson) writes: > I've been able to write tapes which the Suns can read, but not >visa versa. I've got a Bell Technologies XTC controller and board >using the standard xenix tape drivers, and am running 2.3.3 If you can write a tape that the sun can read, then the sun has a different tape drive. It probably is about double the capacity of your tape drive, and writes a much thinner track of information (because it has double the number of tracks). I have been able to read tapes made on a sun, but I had verified that the sun had a 60 meg drive. JB -- Jonathan Bayer Intelligent Software Products, Inc. (201) 245-5922 500 Oakwood Ave. jbayer@ispi.COM Roselle Park, NJ 07204
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (09/28/89)
In article <6@bronson.UUCP>, tan@bronson.UUCP (Tan Bronson) writes: | | I've been able to write tapes which the Suns can read, but not | visa versa. For what it's worth I have been able to write cpio -c tapes on a Sun /dev/rst8 which work on Xenix. I *think* I did a tar tape, but that's not the format I usually run. You may have two drives which are slightly out of line, in opposite directions. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon
daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) (09/29/89)
In article <6@bronson.UUCP> tan@bronson.UUCP (Tan Bronson) writes: > I've been able to write tapes which the Suns can read, but not >visa versa. I've got a Bell Technologies XTC controller and board >using the standard xenix tape drivers, and am running 2.3.3 > Is there some combination I have not tried yet? With high density drives on both machines, the tapes should be interchangeable. However, it sounds like you have a low density, 60-mb drive (most Xenix systems do) and the Sun has a high density, 120-mb drive (most Suns do). In this case the low density tapes will be readable on the high density drive, but not vice-versa. -- Dave Hammond daveh@marob.masa.com