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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.ysu.edu!malgudi.oar.net!news.uakron.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: What tapes can my scsi streamer read? Message-ID: <1994Feb24.075636.23064@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 References: <wmbfmk.762031899@rwb.urc.tue.nl> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 07:56:36 GMT Lines: 29 Marc van Kempen (wmbfmk@rwb.urc.tue.nl) wrote: : Hi, : : I found a bunch of unused tapes from an old Wang which has been disposed : off. They fit into my tapestreamer, but I seem to be unable to read (and : write) them. Is there something that I can configure to read them. : : My tapestreamer is a Wangtek 5525 ES, I use NetBSD 0.9 and on the tapes : it says: WANG Data Cartridge 450' : : Thanks for any solutions, : : : Marc van Kempen : wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl If those are the Wang tapes that I am used to. Approximately 6.5" by 4". They should be standard DC600 60MB tapes. You may need to erase them before using them. Under FreeBSD for the qic02 wt driver this can be done simply by using. "mt -f /dev/rwt0b erase" I don't know if NetBSD has the updated mt and wt.c files for this to work on it. You could probably grab them from current though. If your tape drive is SCSI then you might have to use MSDOG to erase them. hope this helps, Steve