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Re: Exabyte EXB-8505XL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jered Floyd)
Fri Jan 31 12:03:06 1997
To: Louis Mandelstam <louis@sacc.org.za>
cc: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 28 Jan 1997 19:33:56 +0200."
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 11:47:27 EST
From: Jered Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
> > I just got and installed an Exabyte EXB-8505XL in my Linux machine,
> > but have been unable to use it. [...]
> > 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 got the document from Exabyte, but it doesn't seem to help. The main
problem is that during tape operation I will get random invalid sense
data errors and 'Error writing filemark' errors within a few hundred
megabytes. Tape performance is lower than I expected, too, and it takes
about 15 seconds from the beginning of a write operation before the
tape is actually written to.
Has anyone seen anything similar to this? I'm using a Buslogic 958C, and
kernel 2.0.27. Thanks!
--Jered
jered@mit.edu
