paul@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Lansky) (03/07/91)
I discovered, much to my horror, that on the Exabyte 8mm tape drive, you can only write at the beginning of the tape or after the last written file. Here is the statement on the man page for xt write() See write(2). This operation is not legal at all times; for example, after reading a portion of a tape, a write command is illegal if more data exists on the tape. One can only write to a tape if the tape is at BOT or at the end of recorded data. In the documentation for our unit (an Apunix drive) it describes an option which allows you to keep large interfile gaps to allow you to write between old files, but I see know way to do this with the SCSI driver. Does anyone have any workarounds for this? Paul Lansky music Princeton paul@Princeton.edu