Upgrade to mt-st version .5b or greater. Older mt versions had known
bugs particularly with positioning. I suggest scsi emulation + scsi
tape rather than ATAPI tape.
rgds,
tim.
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hdd: HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
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scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 h
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Note: the following is my reply to a private reply to my initial post regarding
my problem reading from my tape drive. I thought that this info might be
helpful on the mailing list as well.
Willem Riede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Guthrie wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> Lately, I have been having problems reading from from my HP Colorado IDE
> tape drive. I can use mt to get the status of the drive and to forward the
> drive to a different file. I can even use tar to write to the tape.
> But whenever I try to read the tar files that I have written to tape, I
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