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- From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Subject: Re: Does SCSI tape work in Oct release?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.115851.9337@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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- Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Organization: Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
- References: <1993Jan15.152659.17107@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:58:51 GMT
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- In <1993Jan15.152659.17107@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
- >Does the October release work with SCSI tapes? When I run the backup
- >program, I get a message that "No tapes are connected or they are not
- >turned on." If I select the "configure hardware" option from the menu,
- >my tape drive appears as one of the selections, but it still doesn't work.
- >
- >I'm running a beta SCSI miniport driver from DTC for my 3290 host. Could
- >this be the problem?
- >
- You need a specific driver for your tape beside the SCSI-Controller
- driver. Currently only PYTHON DAT-Tapes (HP DAT, Archive DAT) are
- supported. We already tried 'stubbing out' the code for the detection
- of the tape model, but it didn't work.
-
- Christoph
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