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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Path: sparky!uunet!unislc!dold
- From: dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold)
- Subject: Re: Is a second tape device possible?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.180956.10968@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:09:56 GMT
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- From article <1992Jul27.213209.12200@ksgbbs.harvard.edu> timb@ksgbbs.harvard.edu (Tim Buehrer - 625-6829) writes:
-
- > We are trying to set up a second tape drive on our xenix box. mkdev tape
- > insists on just overwriting rct0 and nrct0 with the new settings. Is there
- > a way to create a second tape device like rct1 and nrct1?
-
- If the second tape is a SCSI device, 3.2.4 warns that the cartridge tape
- must be the default drive in order to work properly, and gives you some
- /dev/ entries to use.
- If both tapes are non-SCSI, I thought I remembered it muttering something
- about "do you wish to make this the default device".
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