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Re: ide tape errors



also sprach Michael Heldebrant <hmike@portalofevil.com> [2001.12.23.0501 +0100]:
> This is the correct media for the drive to read and write?

good question. i don't know. it's a travan drive, so i'd say that all
TR-3 and TR-4 should work. i do have the original tape that shipped
with the drive though, and that doesn't work either...

> It's correctly installed on the ide chain?  Does the manual have
> anything to say about needing to be a master or slave?

the bios detects it, and so does linux, so this leads me to believe
that yes. and it is!

> I once tried to use an ide-tape drive with 4/8 gb travan tapes to no
> avail.  Even though I could dump to the drive I never could get anything
> back.  I'd check it very well before you trust it.

mh, that's no good news...

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