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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:33:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Jonas Hedqvist <jh@skelleftea.mail.telia.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem using an EXB-8200 8mm tapedrive! Help!
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On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Jonas Hedqvist wrote:

> I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE on a 486 system.
> I have an internal Exabyte 8mm tape (EXB-8200) without compression
> connected to a Adaptec AHA-1515 ISA Scsi card.
> 
> It works fine when I'm reading from tapes but when I'm trying to write 
> the system "hangs". I mean, it takes all my cpu and and the system
> doesn't answer on any io from network/keyboard etc.

What command are you using to write?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major