Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: ESC1298%ESOC.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Danielle Heinzer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: DC300A tape problems Keywords: SunOS Message-ID: <368@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 27 Jul 89 19:08:58 GMT Sender: news@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 19 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 84, message 1 of 13 Ref: v8n 60 Al Donaldson was claiming that he cannot use Scotch DC300A tapes to tar or dump files from a standard Sun shoebox. I do it without any problem on Sun 3/60 with shoe-box and scsi tape drive using st8. The SunOS is 4.0.1. I used also these tapes before on a Sun 3/160 with SunOS 3.5. The tapes logo are: Scotch DC 300A data cartridge Danielle Heinzer ESA Computer Department/Computer Services European Space Operations Centre Robert-Bosch-str. 5 6100 Darmstadt West-Germany Tel int : 49-6151-886540 Bitnet : ESC1298@ESOC