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I've retired my Travan drives, but I remembered a quirk under FreeBSD. Perh=
aps=20
the same applies here. My NS20s were not happy with a double-eofs between=20
archives. You can change this to a single eof with "mt weof".


On Monday 10 November 2003 04:11 am, you wrote:
> I've had lots of problems getting Seagate/Certance IDE Travan drives
> working with 1.6 and -current. I've never had problems with the SCSI
> versions, but those are now virtually extinct. Due to customer price
> limits, I've been forced to quote for IDE Travans instead of DAT drives
> and now it's come back to bite me as NetBSD can't drive them reliably:
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/2003/09/08/0003.html
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2003/10/14/0016.html
>
> I guess I may have to give up Travans (they are noisy, slow and have
> expensive media anyway!). Are there any other IDE tape drives or low-cost
> SCSI drives that you recommend?
>
> (BTW. Has anyone had SIIG SC-PS1X12 SCSI working?)

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John R. Shannon
john@johnrshannon.com
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