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From: jochen@busybit.mrz.sub.org (Jochen Fahrner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386BSD] How to use SCSI tape drive ?
Message-ID: <JOCHEN.92Dec2201641@busybit.mrz.sub.org>
Date: 3 Dec 92 04:16:41 GMT
Sender: jochen@busybit.mrz.lm.sub.org (Jochen Fahrner)
Organization: Busybit's Software Labor, D-8068 Pfaffenhofen
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Today I wanted to connect a scsi cartridge tape drive to my 386BSD
system with adaptec 1542B, but I did not succeed.

My tape drive has target id 6, but I tried also other ids.
I did "mknod /dev/rct c 4 48" and tried a tar command to this device,
but all that happened was a core dump of tar.
cpio did not dump core, but it writes to nirwana :-( nothing happened.

On system startup, my scsi harddisk is recognized, but there is no
message about my tape drive.

Do I have to configure something ????
In the config file "GENERICISA" there are entries for disks, but I did
not find any examples about tape drives.

Can someone help me ?

Jochen
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Jochen Fahrner, D-8068 Pfaffenhofen, jochen@busybit.mrz.sub.org