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Exabyte EXB-8505XL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jered J Floyd)
Tue Jan 28 12:28:04 1997
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:22:29 -0500
From: Jered J Floyd <jered@mit.edu>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Greetings linux-scsi readers,
I just got and installed an Exabyte EXB-8505XL in my Linux machine,
but have been unable to use it. For instance, if I run:
mt setblk 32768
tar -cvlf - -X /usr/backup/exclude.list ./. | dd of=/dev/tape bs=32k
The 'dd' process goes into disk wait, does nothing, and (of course) cannot
be killed. The tape device is unusable until I reboot. Also; how can
I find out what density 'default' is?
Is anyone successfully using an EXB-8500 series drive? If so, how? Thanks.
--Jered
jered@mit.edu
