cpio hangs on end of tape, Archive 2150S with Adaptec 1542B, ISC 2.2.1

[Jim Smithson]

Quite a few people have asked what response I got to my posting on the
problems with the Archive 2150S and Interactive 2.2.1.

The e-mailed response I got from Interactive Support was:
ISC> Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
ISC> 
ISC> There is a known problem with EOT detection in the Adaptec SCSI HPDD Tape
ISC> driver.  This has been fixed, but isn't scheduled to be released 'til
ISC> 2.3 (late summer).
ISC> DLP

I have no idea why Interactive did not post this response to this news group 
(at least I have not seen a followup yet).

Several people suggested that cpio was the problem and that I instead use
`afio`. Not true, I have used cpio before to create multi-tape archives 
on other UNIX computers and it has worked. However, `afio` may be a good 
workaround until the driver problem is fixed.
Again, thanks to all who responded!

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