2.2 SCSI tape support

Karl Denninger karl at naitc.uucp
Tue Jul 3 00:20:36 AEST 1990


In article <1990Jul01.152635.6706 at nstar.uucp> larry at nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:
>The 2.02 release of 386/ix mentioned that tapes made on a 60 meg
>streamer could not be read using the supplied SCSI streamer driver - 
>has this been changed with the 2.2 release?

It has always worked; we have done that since the 2.0.2 days without
trouble.  You can't >write< 60MB format on a 150MB streamer, but that's a
physical problem, not a software one.

It works on 2.2 too.

ISC's docs are plain wrong.

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Karl Denninger
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