On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Jay West wrote:
I'll download this... thanks!
I have a few others I've been skimming, but haven't found the answers yet.
I'd like the URLs to those, too, if possible - I was sure I had the full
docs - but it is likely that they were paper and went with the previous M4
to Munich...
You mean your test-reel didn't have a write wring?
What you describe seems
odd to me.
And why is that? My results were *identical* to yours, then I thought to
check for the ring, it was not in place, I put one on, then re-ran the
tests, and the results were more 'positive' for want of a better word. I
still got the two errors you did - dunno what they are just now...
That's just wierd. You would think if those error stops were common, due to
options, that it would be documented. Well, that makes me feel better, but I
wonder why the host has failure writing at 3200/6250, but 800/1600 is fine.
Wierd!
I've run tapes on my laptop, using Novastor and an Adaptec 1200-series
SCSI card - but I"ve never tried anything higher than 1600, which is what
the tapes I was reading were written at.
On my Vaxstation 3100/38 - again I've never asked it to go fast, so the
tapes I've written under VMS have all been at the 1600 BPI range...
M4 has been taken over by another company, and they
sell/support them. Still
skimming the docs...
I should do that, too...
Cheers
John