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From: richard@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Richard Foulk)
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Subject: Re: Videotape unreliable
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Date: 3 Jan 89 12:39:23 GMT
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In article <8812131900.AA25887@julia.math.ucla.edu> you write:
} We have a 8mm 2.2Gbyte SCSI tape system from Software Associates which we
} are using for dumps, about 1 Gbyte in 16 various-sized files.  This system
} uses the standard Sun SCSI driver (SunOS v3.5).  Frequently it performs
} fine, but on 10-20% of the dump sets it will dump a few files, get an I/O
} error, and be unable to recover....  

We recently got one of those Exabyte drives from someone (forgot who) and
it was delivered with a replacement driver for use with SunOS 3.5.

I was told that the driver was unnecessary for SunOS 4.0 but that Suns 3.5
driver had some bugs in it.  The symptoms sounded similar to yours.

The vendor told me that the driver they provide actually came from Sun, so
I would guess you could probably get a copy from them if you asked the
right person.

Richard Foulk		richard@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu