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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 2009 22:39:30 +0000
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Subject: [9fans] scsi DAT drives and plan9
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Hi,

I have a few old DAT tapes and two DAT drives, I planned
to dub the tapes to CDs/DVDs, but I don't seem to be able
to read them.

	tar tvf /dev/sd00/raw

doesn't work though I didn't really expect it to (block sizes etc),
however even

	echo read bigfile | scuzz /dev/sd00

didn't work. It does generate a file "bigfile" but
it only consists of a stream of zeros.

does anyone use SCSI tapes (DAT or other types) these days?

If it used to work, then when did you last use it - so I know where
to look in venti for differences.

Thanks.

-Steve