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Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 1998 19:49:40 GMT
From:      Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To:        "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com>, bahwi@technologist.com
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Seagate Tape Drive (TR-4)
Message-ID:  <199802111949.TAA02512@stevenson.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Christopher R. Bowman's message of Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:42:52 -0500 (EST)

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> I can't actually say they work since thought I have done many dumps
> fine with this drive, I have never had to do a restore so I have never
> tested it

I strongly suggest you try reading it (dd >/dev/null).  I had several
HP TR-4 drives and *none* of them could read back after the first few
hundred MBytes.

-- Richard

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