SCSI tape drive (exabyte 8200) - how does one install it?

D Fishbein donn at radar.uucp
Mon Nov 5 13:30:12 AEST 1990


phillip at eesun0.ee.adfa.oz.au (Phillip Musumeci) writes:

>We have a PCMS tape drive that we wish to use for backups on our A/UX...

...Does anyone know what the major/minor numbers
>would be for such a tape drive's /dev/rmtN entry? Or better still, can
>anyone give me a "tried and true" list of instructions detailing how
>to setup the A/UX o/s to use such a tape drive (I am an optimist).

It's a little more complicated than this. You need a driver written for the
specific device, which is then installed in the kernel. As an example, see
tony cooper's driver for the TEAC 155M cassette tape unit.
-- 
Donn Fishbein        ..!radar!donn



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