Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!willis.cis.uab.edu!news.lsu.edu!unix1.sncc.lsu.edu!unix1.sncc.lsu.edu!not-for-mail From: mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu (Matthew Nygard Dodd) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: tandberg tdc 3800 Date: 1 Jan 1995 04:53:33 -0600 Organization: Louisiana State University Lines: 35 Message-ID: <3e61jd$1n6f@tiger2.ocs.lsu.edu> References: <929_9412310430@caamora.mpx.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: tiger2-t.ocs.lsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jonathan Michaels (jmichaels@caamora.mpx.com.au) wrote: : Hello imb@asstdc.scgt.oz.au! : 29 Dec 94 18:02, imb@asstdc.scgt.oz.au wrote to All: : : MT STATUS keeps telling me, 07: unknown tape drive, even after I've used : : TAR CVH to successfully write a tape. : i> seems to make it work (with or without the 'h') forever : i> thereafter or until the next reboot .. :-) : The plot thickens .. <stuff deleted> : stranger and stranger .. : has anyone else had any experience this setting up "esoteric" tape drives ? : Jonathan I can't claim to have the same problem, but my Python DAT drive works fine with tar (restored /home from 1.1.5.1 and installed 2.0 from tape) but the "mt" command returns a similar error. I miss the "st" command... (if anyone has the source to this, gzip/tar it to the incoming on cdrom.com) thanks -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew N. Dodd Department of Computer Science mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu Louisiana State University