Gene Heskett scripted ::

>As long as *both* ends 0f the cable are terminated, you should be.  
>The drive, if its terms are off, can be anywhere along the cable as 
>long as the far end is properly terminated.
>
>OTOH, if the drive is the far end termination, then the cable must not 
>go more than 1 or 2 inches max past the drives connection point, else 
>the echo's will come back from the untermed end of the cable, leading 
>to all sorts of weird data errors.

Looks like I have that worked out. The termination on one end is the card and
on the other end is built into the cable, some black plastic and what looks
to be a pc board. I'm assuming that is a terminator and it's right on the end of
the cable so no need to worry about short distance. (It's an HP cable if that
makes a difference.)

Now I've done'tar tbf 64/dev/nst0' which listed lots and lots of files but ended
in the error:

tar: Skipping to next
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I didn't notice any error prior to that, but they went by pretty fast. :-) It
didn't list anything after that and returned me to the prompt. I've seen this
with tar outside the context of a tape drive and I seem to remember that there
was corruption in the tarball. I'm assuming that holds true here.

I'm going to keep on going with the rest of Jay's directions as it looks like
they test something else but would like to know what this means and if I still
need to mess around with some setting or something to get this right.

Thanks,
Josiah