Rodney Fisk wrote:
Rodney,
It'll work with any of the 2Mb/sec controllers - Exabyte, Seagate, or
Iomega. I believe that you'll discover that the read-only state is
related to using a 3020 tape at the 512K/sec or 1Mb/sec rate, instead of
the 2Mb/sec rate. Once you get the accelerator, things should improve.
Oh, which version of ftape are you using?
> Thanks for the info.
> I have gotten the tape to respond to the retention command.
> But it is set readonly, so I can't do anything else.
> The ftape Release notes said that that prob had been corrected, but
> evidently not on mine.
> Any advice?
>
> Additionally, what accelerator card?
> That isn't mentioned in the ftape docs (or at least I missed it) or in my
> Pertec docs.
>
> TIA
> Rodney Fisk<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Tim Jones wrote:
>
> > Rodney Fisk wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi gang,
> > >
> > > I have a Pertec MyTape 3200.
> > > Has anyone gotten it working with ftape?
> > > I think it's a Seagate brand.
> >
> > Negative - Pertec is Pertec. But, it works fine with ftape 4.x since
> > this particular drive is their TR-3 drive. And, you MUST use an
> > accelerator card to get 3020 mode. Otherwise, the tapes will need to be
> > formatted as 3010 (half the capacity).
> >
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