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- From: flanigan@echo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dennis Flanigan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Writing Exabyte/8200 tape format with Exabyte/8500 tape under IRIX
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.183115.16900@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 18:31:15 GMT
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- In article <plbved0@zuni.esd.sgi.com>, olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- |> 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.
- |>
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- The .8200 and .8500 suffixes are used in 4.0.1. If you don't
- see the devices in the /dev/rmt run:
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- /dev/MAKEDEV tps
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- This will create all the SCSI device nodes in /dev/rmt that you
- will ever need.
-
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