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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Motherboard doesn't like tape drive
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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Michael Smith wrote:

> Do you have "FAILSAFE" in your kernel config?

Nope.  Should I?

The one tunable parameter on the archive viper is the buffer
disconnect size.  It is currently at 16K (factory default), but
can be adjusted between 2K and 32K.  Could that be a factor here? 

-john