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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Writing Exabyte/8200 tape format with Exabyte/8500 tape under IRIX
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 00:39:56 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.153522.2773@robcad.uucp>
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- In <1992Sep9.153522.2773@robcad.uucp> mosh@elvis.uucp ( Moshe Shemesh) writes:
- | According to Exabyte-8500 tape documentation, The Exabyte-8500 tape drive
- | is capable of writing files which the Exabyte-8200 is able to read by
- | issuing the appropriate SCSI command. I was wondering if IRIX 4.0.[1-5] has
- | support for this feature? Can I write files with the 8500 tape and then
- | read them on a 8200 tape? How can this be done?
-
- Yes. Just use the devices with the .8200 suffix in /dev/rmt. I think
- we got that in 4.0.1, but it may have been as late as 4.0.3.
-
- | I have inspected /dev/rmt/tps* and noticed that there are device drivers
- | with the 8200 suffix and others with the 8500 suffix. The man page for tps
- | doesn't explain what is the difference between these device drivers (What
- | will happen if I will use the driver with the 8200 suffix with Exabyte-850
- | tape drive? Does the driver with the 8200 suffix support for this feature?
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- As of 4.0.5, the tps man page does talk about the 8200 and 8500 suffixes.
- Note that those devices are created only when an 8500 is detected.
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