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From: patrick@nswitgould.OZ (Patrick Herlihy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Workstation Solution's Exabyte
Message-ID: <10983@nswitgould.OZ>
Date: 3 Apr 89 08:35:10 GMT
References: <960@cernvax.UUCP>
Organization: Comp Sci, NSWIT, Australia
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in article <960@cernvax.UUCP>, achille@cernvax.UUCP (achille) says:
> 
> 
> 	Using either wbak or rwm, everything starts up OK, then
> from time to time we get 'write IO error' with two different behaviour:
> wbak: after the error we get a message coming very likely from the WS's
> tfp library (internal error # something), then some times it goes on very
> slowly (much slower than the usual 40-50KB/sec) and some times just aborts
> after a couple of minutes.

Interesting... we just bought the same unit & are having exactly the same
problem.  I put it down to buying an inferior tape (I went out and bought
a normal 8mm video tape while we are waiting for our tapes from Apollo to 
arrive).  I am suspicious of the unit itself, because we get the same
"write error" when I tried the small tape supplied with the unit.

Anyone else had problems?

Patrick Herlihy
School of Electrical Engineering
University of Technology, Sydney