Problem with 60 Mb Streamer under interactive

[Craig W. Shaver]

In article <129 at guug.guug.de>, mcl at guug.guug.de writes:
> Hi everybody.
	...
> 
> We are having trouble with an 1/4" 60 MB calipher streamer drive on an 
> standard PC runnig interactive IX.
> The drive is connected to an everex controller (830 / 833)
> We are using /dev/wt as device driver.
> 
> The trouble we are having is:
> We can't read any foreign (ie. not on our machine produced) tapes.
> We can tar and untar locally and on my sun I can untar the stuff which was
> tared on the Unix PC. But the other way round does not work.
	...

I have had a similar problem with the same tape setup.  Under esix the
tapes produced could not be read by a Sun and tapes that were good before
put garbage into some of the files as they were extracted from the tape.

I have a hunch that the problem is with the bus speed and the qic02/24 
controller.  I will be testing this sometime soon by putting the tape
into a slower 286 box (6mhz).  I will post results at that time.

	Craig W. Shaver

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