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- From: jdell@nefertiti.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe)
- Subject: Re: DAT's on 4.1.2
- In-Reply-To: kde@boi.hp.com's message of Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:13:29 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:35:57 GMT
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- On Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:13:29 GMT, kde@boi.hp.com (Keith Emmen) said:
-
- > Well, It's time to ask the net, since I haven't been able to figure it
- > out myself.
-
- > We have a Sun clone (Hyundai) running vmunix 4.1.2. We have been
- > trying to hook a DAT tape drive to the system, and while it is
- > recognized at bootup, subsequent attempts to access it result in
- > messages implying that it's off line or the tape is not loaded.
-
- > When it boots, we see:
-
- > st0 at esp0 target 4 lun 0
- > st0: <Vendor 'HP ' Product 'HP35450A -A'>
-
- > but when we try to talk with mt(1), we see: (there is no device file st0)
-
- > / # mt -f /dev/rst0 status
- > /dev/rst0: no tape loaded or drive offline
- > / #
-
- If you look at the man pages for st, you will find that Sun doesn't support
- DAT tapes in the default list of scsi tape devices. Sun likes Exabytes.
- Anyway, I don't know exactly what devices Hyundai supports but I suspect it's
- pretty much the same. You need to modify the files for the kernel to support
- DAT drives.
-
- You should be able to get the files from the manufacturer of the DAT drive.
-
- John
-
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