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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: BTN 2.0 Tape handler
Keywords: BTN, Cipher 540, A2090A,
Message-ID: <61897@masscomp.westford.ccur.com>
Date: 15 Apr 91 19:14:01 GMT
References: <1991Apr13.014520.13657@sugar.hackercorp.com>
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In article <1991Apr13.014520.13657@sugar.hackercorp.com> ssd@sugar.hackercorp.com (Scott Denham) writes:
>Does anyone recognize these symptoms?  
> I'm running BTNTape 2.0 on an A2000 / A2090A to a Cipher 540 1/4" tape
>drive. I can get TAR to read from the drive, but after some
>(variable) number of blocks are read, the system locks up solid.

Yes, I have seen the same thing. I was using BTNTape 2.0 with a 525 Meg
Archive 1/4" tape drive in a 2500/30 with a 2091. When I ran with the
default handler setups, it would take a while to lock, but when it was
optimized for speed with my drive, lockup would occur quite quickly.
I hope someone can answer how to fix this since the new BTN is about 4x
faster than BRU with my configuration and I desparately need FAST archiving.
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