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From: fen@imagine.comedia.com (Fen Labalme)
Subject: Re: Help with Wangtek 6200HS (NetBSD-0.9)
In-Reply-To: rab@hal.cwru.edu's message of 12 Apr 1994 13:27:10 GMT
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In article <2oe7je$928@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> rab@hal.cwru.edu (Roger A.
Bielefeld) writes:
Roger> I've got a Wangtek 6200HS DAT drive from the last group
Roger> purchase on comp.periphs.scsi. I'm trying to get it working...
For what it's worth, I bought one under perhaps the same group
purchase and it works flawlessly for me on my Mac running OS 7.1
and Retrospect 2.0 backup software. Good luck!
But I am having trouble getting it recognized by my '486 NetBSD-0.9
system. (Note: I have an internal SCSI disk and an external SCSI
CD-ROM that both work just fine off my Adaptec 1542C adapter.) I have
some ideas, a combination of which might lead to a working system, but
I know little about these internals. Some guidance would be muchly
appreciated!
1) the 386BSD FAQ says:
...the original SCSI drivers didn't recognize any
devices past the first two (ID 0 and ID 1). Also, there was a bug
in the distribution floppy regarding the devices at ID 6. The
'dev' files for that id need to be remade. Use MAKEDEV to do that.
I think that 1) this FAQ is out of date (?), and 2) I know I can use a
different ID than 6, but how do I check devices at ID 6 in any case?
And how do I use MAKEDEV to fix 'em? (I read /dev/MAKEDEV and saw
nothing having to do with SCSI device ID number configurations.)
2) "/sbin/dump 0uf /dev/nrst0 /tmp" --> "bad sblock magic number"
What does this mean? Is /dev/nrst0 the correct device to use? How
can I tell? (Note: "ls -l /dev/nrst0" yields the following:
crw-r----- 1 root wheel 14, 1 Jul 21 1993 /dev/nrst0)
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
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Fen
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