From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 10 03:07:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA14462 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 03:07:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA14441 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 03:07:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5688) with SMTP id MAA02096; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:06:10 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:06:08 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Peter van Heusden cc: Wilko Bulte , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EXA 8200 tape drive on FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 160m tapes are aproblem in anything before the 8505XL drives and after that they were still not very reliable. The update of the EPROM involves opening it up and being able to burn an EPROM. I'll send you the web page of exabyte separately: http://www.exabyte.com/suppserv/techsupp/8mm/fullhigh/ Nick -- building: 27A address: STA-ISIS, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy tel.: +39 332 78 9549 fax.: +39 332 78 9185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message