Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!naitc!karl
From: karl@naitc.uucp (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: 2.2 SCSI tape support
Summary: Nonsense; it has ALWAYS worked
Message-ID: <1990Jul2.142036.13352@naitc.uucp>
Date: 2 Jul 90 14:20:36 GMT
References: <1990Jul01.152635.6706@nstar.uucp>
Reply-To: karl@naitc.chi.il.us (Karl Denninger)
Organization: A.C. Nielson Co.
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In article <1990Jul01.152635.6706@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:
>The 2.02 release of 386/ix mentioned that tapes made on a 60 meg
>streamer could not be read using the supplied SCSI streamer driver - 
>has this been changed with the 2.2 release?

It has always worked; we have done that since the 2.0.2 days without
trouble.  You can't >write< 60MB format on a 150MB streamer, but that's a
physical problem, not a software one.

It works on 2.2 too.

ISC's docs are plain wrong.

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Karl Denninger
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(708) 317-3285