pcnfs>backup>exabyte

[Michael Johnson]

I just observed a problem and thought that I would post it and
see if anyone has solved it.

I am attempting to backup my IBM-PC disk to the tapedrive on my
SGI.  The software I am using is SUN's pc-nfs with the lifeline
backup option.  It all works fine as long as I write to the
cartridge tape (tps0d7ns).  However, it fails to write to our
8 mm tape, i.e. SGI supported exabyte drive (tps0d6ns).  The
error message is "LL011F : Write failed".  Also the SGI can 
read and write to the exabyte with no problems.

The SGI is a Turbo-16 server (4D-80) running 3.1D of operating
system.

Presumeably, the problem is the long start and stop time of the
exabyte drive.

Any ideas on how to solve the problem?

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