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From: davee@mitre.org (Dave Edwards)
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Subject: Exabyte woes
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 7 Oct 90 21:30:00 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 318, message 8

I am having some interesting problems with an Exabyte drive on a Sun
4/490.  When we try an "mt -f /dev/rst0 erase" the device goes out to
never- never land!  I see on the mt man page that not all operations are
supported for all devices.  Is this a bad combination?  After trying it, I
can't get the drive to give back my tape cartridge for some time (hour or
more)!  Any clues will be gratefully appreciated.

                                                  - Dave Edwards
                                                    davee@mitre.org