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From: zoltan@bendor.com.au (Zoltan Kocsi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Wangtek tape drive
Date: 30 Sep 1996 12:30:58 GMT
Organization: Bendor Research Pty. Ltd.
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I have a Wangtek 5525ES SCSI rev 1, 6F6 tape drive.
The kernel recognises it and configures /dev/rst0 and /dev/st0.
mt rewind and mt retension work fine, however, mt status reports:
7: unknown tape drive
No program that wants to write to the tape succeeds, even mt eof
results a whole load of 'illegal request: <lotsa hex dump>' responses.
The tape is not write protected (and configured at boot time as 
'density code 0x5, 512-byte blocks, write-enabled'.

The it's NetBSD-1.1, by the way.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Zoltan
 
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* Zoltan Kocsi                      *    I don't believe in miracles but    *
* Bendor Research Pty. Ltd.         *    I rely on them.                    *
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