[net.unix-wizards] TU78 Problems

davec (11/02/82)

Has anybody ever encountered a situation where a TU78 drive will give
intermittent "BAD TAPE" error responses while writing at 6250 bpi under
4.1bsd, which never appear regardless of the load under VMS on the
same drive using the same tape.

It seems to be related to not recovering correctly from a soft write
error (maybe because a command is given to the TM78 formatter before
it is ready to accept it), but???

Dave Clemans
Tektronix