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Ken Van Camp
kvancamp at PICA.ARMY.MIL
Fri Mar 24 02:08:59 AEST 1989
> If the 4D/70GTB is like the 3000's, you can't do what you're trying
>to do. Our documentation says that you can ONLY create an entire tape
>at one time, you CAN'T append to a tape that already has information on
>it. This is very annoying.
Yes, it is true of the 4D's as well.
>Another annoyance is that archives can't
>be spread over multiple tapes.
That's what SGI told me when we bought our original 3020's, but we tried
it and it worked fine. I have restored several volumes of tapes this
way with no ill effects. I have also tried this out on the 4D's with
no problem.
--Ken Van Camp
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