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In-Reply-To: <199801300945.UAA03866@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Jan 30, 98 08:15:01 pm"
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In reply to Mike Smith who wrote:
> > > Sony DDS drive and let them work out what to do.   8)
> > 
> > I have the HP disks, but no tape ....
> 
> *mumble*  What is it about the HP disks that's actually important here? 
> The only things that FAILSAFE seems to do are set NCR_DFLT_TAGS to 0 
> and set CDROM_ASYNC.  Is it just that these disks can't handle tagged 
> commands?

Yup.

						Søren