oneill@bass.bu.edu (Brian V O'Neill) (10/17/90)
I am having a problem using an 8mm drive hooked up to a VAXserver 3600 running Ultrix 3.1. The drive was purchased from Digital with I believe a Largo controller, but the documentation was gone before I started. The problem is that I cannot perform file skips of dump-format files. It works fine with tar files, but I want to place multiple dumps onto a single tape. Any time I attempt to use 'mt fsf', I get an I/O error right about when it should have reached the end. Any ideas around this problem? -- ============================================================================ Brian O'Neill - Local Internet Access Account Internet: oneill@bu-pub.bu.edu UUCP : ...!bu.edu!bu-pub!oneill
grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (10/18/90)
In article <66343@bu.edu.bu.edu> oneill@bass.bu.edu (Brian V O'Neill) writes: > I am having a problem using an 8mm drive hooked up to a VAXserver 3600 > running Ultrix 3.1. The drive was purchased from Digital with I believe a > Largo controller, but the documentation was gone before I started. > > The problem is that I cannot perform file skips of dump-format files. It > works fine with tar files, but I want to place multiple dumps onto a single > tape. Any time I attempt to use 'mt fsf', I get an I/O error right about > when it should have reached the end. Any ideas around this problem? This kind of problem is/was frequent with 8mm tape drives. Check with the controller vendor and make sure they claim to support file skipping and that the controller / drive firmware is at the current revision level. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)