[comp.sys.amiga.hardware] SCSI Tape handler

armhold@constance.rutgers.edu (George Armhold) (10/13/90)

I've just downloaded the "BTN" SCSI tape handler from the net, but
have not been able to get it to work.  I'm using a "MaxStream" SCSI
streaming tape, hung off of the A2091's external port.  

When I mount TAPE:, it tells me "Please insert volume TAPE:", and
popping a tape into the drive and clicking retry satisifies the
requester.  But when I try to write to the drive, (say using 'tar', or
the formattape file,) I get an I/O error.  The tapemon program reports
error code 45.  I have the SCSI address of the tape drive set to 1,
and the mountlist ID number set appropriately.  

Is there anything blatantly wrong that I'm doing here?  Has anyone had any
luck with this hardware combination?

Any hints or suggestions greatly apprecited.

Thanks,
-George