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- From: wadswort@babss.UUCP (John H. Wadsworth)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 on ISC 3.0?
- Message-ID: <1590@b1.babss.UUCP>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:58:34 GMT
- References: <3820@creatures.cs.vt.edu>
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- Organization: Bell Atlantic Business Systems Service Branford, Ct.
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- In article <3820@creatures.cs.vt.edu> alanlb@csgrad.cs.vt.edu writes:
- >Hi there! I have ISC 3.0 with the FD_S3.0 patch diskette running
- >on a non-DTK (the real name escapes me, Cirrus maybe?) 486 motherboard
- >with an Adaptec 1542B. I have hooked up an Exabyte EXB-8500 to it and
- >have configured HPDD to recognize it as a generic SCSI tape drive.
- >However, I seem to missing a step or two because /dev/tape is still
- >unrecognized.
- >Are there any special hardware/software configuration steps that I
- >have to perform? Is my ISC version OK, or do I have to upgrade?
-
- I believe you have everything you need. As I remeber the /dev/tape
- doesn't appear anymore unless you make/link/copy it. Here's a list
- from my /dev :
- > ls -alR |grep 36
- crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 36, 64 Jun 2 14:08 nrmt0
- crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 36, 64 Jun 2 14:08 nrmt0t4
- crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 36, 64 Jun 2 14:08 ntape
- crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 36, 72 Jun 2 14:08 rmt0
- crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 36, 72 Jun 2 14:08 rmt0t4
- crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 36, 72 Jun 2 14:08 tape
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