Sun Cartridge Tape problem.
Andrew Simms
asimms at phoenix.princeton.edu
Fri Sep 22 01:15:27 AEST 1989
Do sun cartridge tape drives ever need calibration or adjustment? When I
try to boot a tape (like the 4.0 install tape), I get:
>b
Boot: st(0,0,0)
st:error 96A0
>
I would normally assume a hardware problem (of the get it fixed elsewhere
variety), but I get the same message on 3 of my Sun 3/160s. I coerced one
of the drives into reading a tape once (with repeated retries, but I can
never get them to read a boot tape).
Unfortunately, the machines were here before I arrived so I don't know if
they ever worked.
Any ideas would be appreciated. Just send me mail, I will summarize and
post the results.
--Andrew Simms
ams at acm.princeton.edu
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