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From: bmk@teleport.com (bmk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Tape drive trouble
Date: 29 Jan 1995 10:44:07 -0800
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
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Message-ID: <3ggnln$b7v@kelly.teleport.com>
References: <3gavop$chr@ns.oar.net>
Reply-To: bmk@teleport.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: kelly.teleport.com
In article <3gavop$chr@ns.oar.net>, Kenneth Furge <kfurge@ysi.com> wrote:
>Everex QIC-36 controller connected to a Wantek
>tape drive. The drive gets recognized by the
>kernel (on wt0) but when I try to use it in a tar
>command (i.e. "tar cvf /dev/rst0 ./*"), I get a
The /dev/rst* devices are for SCSI drives. The QIC-36/QIC-02 drives
use the wt driver, thus you need to do "tar cvf /dev/rwt0 .....".
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