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- From: marianne@stevie.bsd.uchicago.edu (Marianne Guntow)
- Subject: Tape drive hookup
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.203145.3882@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: marianne@stevie.bsd.uchicago.edu (Marianne Guntow)
- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:31:45 GMT
- Lines: 65
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- I am posting this message for one of the members of my NeXT Users Group.
- You may reply directly to him at the addresses listed in his message or to
- me. Thanks for any help you can offer.
- _____________________________________________________________________
- Marianne Guntow, Technical Support Coordinator
- Campus Computer Stores, University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- University of Chicago NeXT Users Group Coordinator
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- I am trying to hook up an "Alliance Peripheral Systems ARCHIVE Python
- DAT" tape drive to a monochrome NeXTStation. The SCSI ID number of the
- drive is set to 2. The machine seems to recognize the drive because
- after rebooting, the NMI mini-monitor gives the following msg :
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- ARCHIVE Python 25501-XXX as st0 at sc0 target 2 lun 0
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- According to the NeXT User's Reference (p. 298) the above message should
- mean that the device is mounted on /dev/st0a, but there are no st* devices
- in the /dev directory. This is the smallest problem. So far I have been
- unable to use the drive with 'tar' (or anything else). 'mount' does not
- recognize the drive :
-
- $ /usr/etc/mount
- /dev/sd0a on / type 4.3 (rw,noquota,noauto)
- tmnxt1:(autonfsmount[115]) on /Net type nfs (ro,intr,port=714)
- /dev/fd0a on /junk type 4.3 (rw,noquota)
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- (fd0a is the floppy drive). The manufacturer (Alliance Peripheral
- Systems)
- claims that I do not need to mount the drive explicitly, just connect it
- and
- reboot the computer. Any attempt to use tar with the default device
- /dev/rxt0
- gives the expected error message :
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- tar: /dev/rxt0: No such device or address
-
- and rxt[1-9] give similar results.
-
- Has anybody out there had similar problems? I would appreciate any help
- with this. Please Email advice to any one of the addresses below (the
- first address accepts NeXT mail):
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- boyan@tmnxt1.iit.edu
- boyaboy@karl.iit.edu
- boyaboy@iitvax (Bitnet)
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-
- Thanks,
-
- Boyan
- Indentured Servant (i.e. graduate student)
- Department of Physics
- Illinois Insitute of Technology
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