From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 26 23:43:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA03481 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:43:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA03427 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:43:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA12436 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:42:59 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA29377 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 08:42:58 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id HAA19035 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 07:56:38 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603270656.HAA19035@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Can't read this stupid DAT tape - ARGH! To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 07:56:38 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9603262247.AA28306@stargazer> from "gary.corcoran" at Mar 26, 96 05:47:06 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As gary.corcoran wrote: > Might this be a DDS-2 tape (high density recording) trying to be read by > a DDS-1 tape drive? Nope. DDS-1 drives don't even swallow DDS-2 cassettes. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)