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From: erek@helios.enea.se (Erik Ekstr|m)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Megatape
Message-ID: <EREK.89Aug21094717@helios.enea.se>
Date: 21 Aug 89 07:47:17 GMT
Sender: erek@enea.se
Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden
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I am working on a site with one Pyramid 9035 and one Pyramid 9015.
The 9035 have mirror disks and both of them have one Megatape (500MB)
tapedriver. The controller is IOP/TPE.

We are having very much trouble with the Megatape one both machines.

	1.	Sometimes we get a write error (BOT is found before EOT)
		on the tape (end of tape) when we're using cpio for dumping 
		the filesystems.

	2.	We lose the microcode in the TPE once and a while.

	3.	Sometimes we get a systemcrash when we're re trying to
		reload the microcode on the living 9035.

	4.	We get a write error in the middle of the tape quite a few 
		times.

	5.	The tape differs quite a lot in length.

Does anyone know anything about these problems?


		

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Erik Ekstr|m - ENEA DATA, Sweden - erek@enea.se