RS/6000 Tape questions

[frank at leopard.austin.ibm.com]

Several comments on tape questions.

1) In response to getting the 'invalid argument' when doing a tape operation:
   This may occur when you have a tape density mismatch (just a guess). 
The default is something like 1200. /dev/rmt0.1 writes to 600 tapes. 
They can not write to 300 tapes.
   Also, I think it would be worth calling in the ambiguous message
'invalid argument', I am not fond of it either.

2) ECC:  I believe that this has been withdrawn from support in later
updates.  This could be why you don't see it as an option on your smit
tape configuration menu.


- Frank Feuerbacher


Disclaimer: I speak only for me!  And I don't even do a good job of that!