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Re: Exabyte EXB-8505XL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Louis Mandelstam)
Tue Jan 28 12:37:39 1997
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 19:33:56 +0200 (SAT)
From: Louis Mandelstam <louis@sacc.org.za>
Reply-To: Louis Mandelstam <louis@sacc.org.za>
To: Jered J Floyd <jered@mit.edu>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199701281722.MAA02633@the-great-machine.mit.edu>
On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Jered J Floyd wrote:
> 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.
Using an 8505XL without any problems here, with dd, rmt, tar, bru and
others.
I'm not setting the blocksizes at all.
Exabyte does have a document dealing specifically using Linux with their
products. I suggest you mail stephani@Exabyte.COM and request a copy - it
might help you out.
Regards
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