Problems with our tape drive

[Carl Lowenstein]

In article <499 at daemen.UUCP> boyce at daemen.UUCP (Buck Wheat) writes:
>
>and one Kennedy tape drive.  It is configured to the 'tm' interface
>and is defined as 'te0'.  A lot of times we get a 'te0: lost interrupt'
>when doing 'mt fsf' and the tape continues to spin till the end.
>
The tm(4) device handler thinks that any tape operation that takes
more than a small number of seconds (5 from my memory) is a mistake.
If you have a moderate-sized file and a suitably slow tape drive,
it will take more than 5 seconds to skip it.  You either have to skip
files by reading an infinite number of records, or else you have to
hack at the handler.

>					Doug Boyce
>					Daemen College
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