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Date:      Sat, 8 Apr 1995 07:42:04 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        rmallory@wiley.csusb.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Arcive Viper QIC150 and tar
Message-ID:  <199504081242.HAA20164@bonkers.taronga.com>
In-Reply-To: <199504080843.KAA05362@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 8, 95 10:43:00 am

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> The Viper 150 has one annoying firmware bug^H^H^Hfeature: in order to
> append files to the tape (or should i call them ``extents''?), you'll
> have to ``mt fsf'' until you see the first BLANK CHECK (st0: no data).

I was under the impression that you couldn't append data to a QIC tape,
due to the erase head geometry. Is this wrong?



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