Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 19:37:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: nick.hibma@jrc.it Cc: pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EXA 8200 tape drive on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199808111737.TAA00492@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980810115920.25271P-100000@elect8> from Nick Hibma at "Aug 10, 98 12:06:08 pm"
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As Nick Hibma wrote... > > So, its a slightly different model, maybe with an older firmware > > (are firmware upgrades possible on these drives?) However, since it is a > > similar model, I was wondering what you do to use a tape. The tape I'm > > trying to use is an Exabyte 112m tape, and as I said before, I tried a 'mt > > erase' before using the tape. > > Take a safe bet and use a 90m tape before anything else. I know that 112m he wrote.. > 160m tapes are aproblem in anything before the 8505XL drives and after > that they were still not very reliable. 160m are not supported in 8200 drives. They might even spit 'm out Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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