On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:47:23AM +1200, Mark Davies wrote:
> I've been meaning to jump in to this thread...
> 
> I have an HP 425 with an 7980 attached running NetBSD 1.1 (yes really - I keep 
> thinking about upgrading it but it never happens) that happily reads and 
> writes tapes at both 1600 and 6250bpi.  In fact thats pretty much all it does 
> these days and very little of that even.
>

I'll probably try 1.1 when (more likely if) I get some spare time, unless
you're using some magic parameters to tar, dump, dd whatever :)

I'd really like to get the drives working with NetBSD, having better tape support
with HP-UX isn't really enough to make me switch back.

Oh, is the drive on fast/slow/built-in HP-IB bus ?

TIA, 
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jht