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From: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Tape Drive Suggestion? (Summary)
Message-ID: <5123@thebes.Thalatta.COM>
Date: 23 Jul 90 23:07:42 GMT
References: <1893@engage.enet.dec.com> <19@sequim.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
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In article <19@sequim.UUCP> pmb@sequim.UUCP (Peter Black) writes:
:
:
:I sold a friend a system with a Wangtek 5150PK internal 150 meg tape
:drive, SCO Xenix 2.3.2 GT, and now I am sorry.  SCO wrote the drivers
:for Wangtek but they don't work right.  Using sysadmin, you can restore
:file(s) by jumping back and forth between multiscreens and executing
:"tape reset" between operations that access the tape.  I don't think it
:would be possible to boot from a floppy and restore the root file system.
:Backup works fine and tar is reported to work.  Nice tape unit,
:bad software drivers.  SCO says it is a low priority bug fix.
:Isn't too bad we've lost pride in our work.
:
:Peter M. Black, Peter M. Black Real Estate Co., Inc.
:P.O. Box 2227, 315 E. Washington Street, Sequim, WA 98382
:Voice (PDT): (206) 683-1171 or 800-962-7307, FAX: (206) 683-5415
:E-Mail: uunet!sequim!pmb

This is a 'feature' using the Archive drivers also.  In fact -- I
have found that the tape reset doesn't always work when going to
the next tape either!  This isn't too big a deal if you are using
tar to make the tapes and make sure you don't split a file across
multiple tapes.
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