CARPINO@ASTMB1.INFN.IT (06/14/90)
We wish to tell you ("on the spot") a problem we have encountered in using a SCSI tape drive (both Archive QIC-150 cassette drive and Kennedy 9610 tape) in using IRAF image reduction software: IRAF requires the tape unit to be able to backspace a record through a tape mark (EOF), and "rst" drivers cannot do that (as explained on page 1429 of the SunOS Reference Manual, Release 4.1, under mtio(4)); do you know any way to circumvent this problem? Your sincerely Mario Carpino CARPINO@ASTMIB.ASTRO.IT or CARPINO@ASTMIB.INFN.IT