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Thanks- glad it worked for you!

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Jim Bryant wrote:

> Tested and seems to work fine on a HP C1533 DDS-2 drive.
>
> A mysterious filesystem corruption of /var happened the day after I did a two-tape dump, and the fixed tape driver was a godsend!
>
> I would have reported back last night, but some moron driving a backhoe dealt a 22-hour fatal blow to Time Warner/Roadrunner
> locally, and it all was restored about half an hour ago...
>
> Thanks Matt!
>
> Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
> > 'ullo? anyone 'ome?
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I've made some changes which cleared up problems with EOM handling and
> >>correctly doing things with QIC. I hope. I have done a lot of testing, but
> >>this is an area which, sad to say, can take a lot to get right and it's easy
> >>to miss things.
> >>
> >>I've done several passes of my tape pattern tester for:
> >>
> >>TANDBERG SLR5 4/8GB
> >>ARCHIVE Python 29279-XXX
> >>DEC TLZ09
> >>EXABYTE 8500S
> >>EXABYTE 8505XL
> >>HP DDS3 4mm
> >>DEC DLT4000
> >>QIC-150
> >>
> >>and I did spanned tape backups and restores and compares for the TANDBERG and
> >>the ARCHIVE. I also did a couple of runs using an eot model of 1 even for
> >>variable drives like the DDS3 4mm.
> >>
> >>In the process of all this testing I killed my DLT4000, killed one Exabyte
> >>8505 and had to buy on EBay a couple of more drives. I think at this point I'd
> >>like some of the actual users of tape stuff in FreeBSD to help out and see if
> >>things work for them or not.
> >>
> >>If you all would be so kind- could you fetch
> >>
> >>	http://people.freebsd.org/~mjacob/scsi_sa.c
> >>
> >>and give it a shot? I'll be away until next wednesday (I have to go to
> >>Minneapolis on a business trip)- and can't easily check email while I'm away-
> >>but I really would like feedback- thanks!
> >>
> >>-matt
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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