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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:49:41 -0700
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- From: Stephen Vermeulen <SVermeulen@RAGNAROK.CUC.AB.CA>
- Subject: Re: BTNTape, tar, reading sun tar format tapes.
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- : Does anyone know how to setup BTNTape on a Amiga to read and write tapes
- : to a exabyte tape drive in tar format, I have tar on the amiga and
- : I can read and write tapes written using tar on the amiga.
- : But if I write tapes on a sun using tar I cannot read them on the amiga.
- :
- : Thanks in advance.
- :Darren Carpenter.
- :
-
- I've been doing this for a while, this is the mount list entry I use
- when reading (or creating) a UNIX TAR tape...
-
- EXB: Handler = L:btn-handler
- Priority = 5
- Mount = 1
- Stacksize = 4000
- GlobVec = -1
- StartUp = "gvpscsi.device/UN-4/BS-10240/NB-1/BT-0/VB-1"
- #
-
- Note that my Exabyte is an 8200 made for IBM to use in their PS/2
- servers, for some wierd reason (must be internal dip switch settings)
- it only wants to work if I use it in variable block mode (the VB-1
- setting), although this does not seem to cause any problems in
- data exchange.
-
- Regards,
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