peter@hydrovax.nmt.edu (Peter A. Blemel) (11/02/89)
We have a 6157-002 tape drive on a 6150/135 running AIX 2.2.1. I have been trying to figure out how to make this thing write tapes that a normal tape drive can read. By normal I mean the -001, Suns, Decstations, etc. When we first got the machine, the tape didn't work at all. IBM inadvertantly sent a 001 to replace the bad -002. We were quite happy in our ignorance because we could interchange tapes with the Sun. Recently that drive died, and we were given a 002 because IBM wanted to rectify its mistake. Now nothing (except the RT itself) can read tapes the RT writes. This is a considerable problem because we do all our development on this machine and port away from it. It can read tapes written by these other machines, but not write tapes that they can read. Is there anything, short of buying a 001, that I can do? This drive is also rediculously slow. I have the buffer size maxed out (tar at 800), and it still takes forever to write even 10k. Is there any way to switch this data compression or whatever it is off, or am I missing some parameter to make it go faster? Any pointers would be greatly appriciated. Thanks Peter ----- peter@hydrovax.nmt.edu peter@amber.nmt.edu (505) 835 4761 (505) 255 8611