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From: steveg@tove.umd.edu (Steve Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: apple tape drive
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Date: 30 Mar 89 05:21:01 GMT
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Here is a followup to my own post a few days back.  I had a problem doing
a restore from tape to a rodime 144.  My assumtion was that the drive was
not partitioned correctly and it seems that that is indeed the case.  
The rodime driver utility does not correctly partiton volumes.  From
what I can guess, the apple tape drive software looks at the logical
partiton length to determine the size of the partition and the rodime
software does not fill in this value.  That is, it only fills in the 
physical length value in the pmap. (or visa-versa, its late and Iam tired)
Well, the solution was to use another driver or fix the pmap under AUX.
Conclusion: If you have a rodime, test tape bup's before you buy.

steveg@tove.umd.edu