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From: brian@alzabo.UUCP (Brian Hilchie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Tape Drives
Keywords: QIC-40
Message-ID: <797@alzabo.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 89 15:00:42 GMT
References: <96@raider.MFEE.TN.US>
Reply-To: brian@alzabo.UUCP (Brian Hilchie)
Organization: Aero Animation, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <96@raider.MFEE.TN.US> root@raider.MFEE.TN.US (Bob Reineri) writes:
>I am considering the purchase of a mini cartridge tape drive (DC2000) by   
>Colorado Memory Systems. The advertiser says "SCO Xenix" compatible.
>Any comments on performance, or lack thereof, would be greatly appreciated.

I bought one of these drives much to my regret.  I've had no problems
with the drive itself,  but the Xenix driver supplied by CMS sucks.
It can only be reliably used in single user mode (no automated late
night backups!);  otherwise sometimes tape operations hang and can't
be stopped even with kill -9.  Once my file system was corrupted.
On top of all that the driver increases the size of the kernel by 100K.
-- 
Brian Hilchie   <>   brian@alzabo.uucp   <>   uunet!mitel!sce!scs!alzabo!brian

"Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."