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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:48:59 -0500
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
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To: Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi, Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: problem with ide-scsi and IDE tape drive
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> > I have a Seagate STT20000A IDE tape drive, which I am trying to use

> Does your drive only accept writes from the beginning of the tape

> 	Kai

I thought that was the property of helical technologies such
as DAT and 8mm. STT20000 must be QIC which ought to work,
that's why I did not bring it up. I saw the Illegal Request too.

Historically ide-scsi worked better with tapes than ide-tape,
so I am puzzled why it fails that way.

-- Pete
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