Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!eci386!clewis
From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Tape cartridge hung
Message-ID: <1990Jul30.210437.17290@eci386.uucp>
Date: 30 Jul 90 21:04:37 GMT
References: <90206.103115UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
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In article <90206.103115UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes:
> We are having a problem where a
>    tar cv dirname
> commands "seems" to start working, but then freezes up.
> Details:  SCO Unix 3.2 on Compaq 386/33 with Compaq 150/250 drive.

Is that a tape drive?  Early Wangtek 60Mb streamers had some sort of
bug in the controller that caused them to hang when used with UNIX
or Xenix.  Wangtek was shipping 150's for a while for no extra charge.
-- 
Chris Lewis, Elegant Communications Inc, {uunet!attcan,utzoo}!lsuc!eci386!clewis
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