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From: lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3B1 tape drive problems
Summary: Check the "Safe" status of the tape?
Message-ID: <1249@icus.ICUS.COM>
Date: 15 Aug 90 23:32:28 GMT
References: <1990Aug15.095735.24252@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano)
Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, New York
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In article <1990Aug15.095735.24252@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> rkw@mthvax.cs.miami.edu 
(Dr. R.K. Wright) writes:
|>I am trying to use the tape drive and only have the window type
|>manual.
|>
|>Recently Lenny Tropiano wrote that 
|>tar cvf - . | dbuf -oT25600 /dev/rft3
|>would work.  It does not for me
|>
|>dbuf -i /dev/rft3 on a tape prepared from windows gives me what
|>is on the tape.  Any attempt to do dbuf -o or dbuf -oT25600 give me a
|>cannot read write error and the light never comes on.
[...]

Well can't say much other than to check the "write protect status" of
the tape.  If the tape is turned to "SAFE" then that's the problem.
I tried the "tar" command and it worked just fine ...

-Lenny

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