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Subject: Re: Tape drive oddities
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> > Not a tape driver problem- sounds like either your termination is wrong on the
> > 1542C (check via bios), or that there's something not quite right with the
> > adaptec 1542 driver.
> 
> A repeatable off-by-1 error due to termination problems? I doubt it to be
> honest.. Sounds more like driver problems to me
> 

Yes, I'd usually agree. Although in SYNC mode for older hardware, a missing
'last byte' was indeed often a bad cabling problem.





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