"Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Suggestion: if you have a SCSI tape drive, you might wish to check that > you can read from it, and/or you might wish to upgrade your kernel.
Here's a data point: I didn't have any problems reading my Exabyte SCSI drive with 2.0.0 last night when I upgraded my home box to 1.1.5. One thing to think about is the blocksize. If you've run "mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0" (which is good for reading tapes written by SunOS and AIX I have found) you won't be able read tapes written with the default block size (whatever that is) and vice-versa. I haven't done any performance tests to compare the effects of different block sizes but would be interested to hear from others who have (I use tar for backups). Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If you think you're getting your money's worth, vote for Dole or Clinton--it doesn't matter. If you don't, vote for someone else.
