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From: tony@cortex.psych.nyu.edu (Tony Movshon)
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Subject: Advice needed on 3.4 st problem
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Date: 25 Jan 89 05:32:50 GMT
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I have a 3/50 with a shoebox, running release 3.4 of SunOS. Since
upgrading to 3.4, I have been unable to write 1/4" tapes. Apparently this
is a known problem with 3.4 on some machines, so I strongly suspect that
nothing is wrong with my tape drive. Now, I have the 3.5 tapes, but I'm
disinclined to go through the whole dump/reload/restore cycle just for
this one problem, especially if a fix is not certain.

So, the question:  is it possible to take a piece of the 3.5 system and
use it to build a 3.4 system that will work? The new st.o perhaps?  Or
will this cause more trouble than it fixes?

Alternatively, is there some easy way to establish whether I have the
flavor of st that 3.4 won't drive?

	Tony Movshon

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