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Subject: tu81+ question
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Date: Fri, 12-Jun-87 09:34:00 EDT
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     Does anyone know anything about bugs in the VMS driver for TU81+?
The symptom that I got was not being able to perform a backup from tape to
disk.  The error message was an "end of tape detected" message.  I assumed
the tape was defective and got a replacement, which did the same thing.  At
that point someone told me that the driver had a bug and that things would
work all right if I copied the savesets onto disk and backed up from there.
I was able to copy the save sets successfully and complete the installation.

     Whatever the bug is, it does not prevent me from doing *any* restores
from tape; I've only had it fail on one (maybe two) occasions.  The problem
is that I still don't know what the scope of the bug is (i.e. when I can
expect to see it again).  Anyone?

Mary Malmros
Smith College
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