Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:17:02 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slightly off topic: Wangtek 5150ES Message-ID: <8sev4e$obn$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <XFMail.001016131617.mj@isy.liu.se>
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Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> wrote: > sa0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 > sa0: <WANGTEK 5150ES SCSI FA23 08> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-CCS device > sa0: 3.300MB/s transfers > lagrange# tar cf /dev/rsa0 vinum.4.ps > tar: can't write to /dev/rsa0 : Invalid argument. > Where do I go wrong? I have a 525Meg tape in the drive. Is it > possible that the tape is not recognized? <Sigh> Good you mentioned this, because that's a failure mode I'd have never thought of. Yes, of course you need a QIC-150 tape. Tape type recognition is automatic for QIC drives, although I don't know the exact mechanism. A higher capacity tape than the drive was build for is simply an unknown tape type that the drive will refuse to read or write. > Do I have to use another (150Meg?) tape? The documentation that came with the drive mentions the supported tape types. These should be DC6150 (QIC-150, 150MB) and DC6250 (QIC-150, longer tape, 250MB) plus a few older types (QIC-120, QIC-24) that are still supported for compatibility reasons. Second-hand DC6[12]50 tapes are ubiquitous, and the tapes are very longlived, so you should have little trouble finding some. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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