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- Path: sparky!uunet!well!gaarder
- From: gaarder@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Gaarder)
- Subject: Re: HP DAT drive on a 4D/35
- Message-ID: <BxIFt6.L7t@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: AC Technology
- References: <BxGzIv.6p2@well.sf.ca.us> <s62becg@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:12:41 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <s62becg@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >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
-
- It worked - thanks!. Now the next question is whether and how I can
- turn compression on and off (other than the DIP switches on the drive
- In HP-UX it's done with different device minor numbers.
-
- Steve Gaarder
- gaarder@actech.com
-