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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: HP DAT drive on a 4D/35
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- References: <BxGzIv.6p2@well.sf.ca.us>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 05:45:00 GMT
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- In <BxGzIv.6p2@well.sf.ca.us> gaarder@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Gaarder) writes:
-
- | We have an HP 35480A DAT drive that we have hooked up to a 4D/35 running
- | 4.0.5. I can read my own tapes fine, but not tapes made on an HP 9000/700.
- | With those, tar gives "premature end of file" and dd gives ") records".
- | I note that the hinv command gives the drive type as "unknown", and thus
- | suspect part of the problem is that the software does not recognize the
- | drive as a DAT drive. Any ideas?
-
- Start by making a new entry in /usr/sysgen/master.d/tpsc. After it
- works (i.e., you ran /etc/autoconfig, rebooted, and hinv and
- mt stat report it as a DAT, (assuming this is your only tape drive) do:
- su
- cd /dev
- rm *tape*
- ./MAKEDEV tape
-
- If this isn't your only tape drive, and you don't want it to
- be your 'primary' tape, omit the 'rm' line.
-
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