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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5199 comp.os.386bsd.development:1223 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: SCSI tape questions Date: 18 Sep 1993 23:10:49 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 39 Message-ID: <27g4hp$uu@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca Howdy! I'm looking to do some fiddling around with tape drive stuff, and had a few questions concering various things: 1. On the suns I used to work with, if the SCSI tape drive was an Exabyte drive, nrst0 would be used for 8200s, and nrst8 would be used for 8500s. YOu could also use nrst0 for 8500s in 8200 mode (or whatever it's called). Is there a similar mechanism in the BSD-du-jour code...? How does this relate to 2GB DAT drives...? 2. In /usr/include/sys/mtio.h, there are abunch of MT_IS* constants indicating which tape drive one has. However, there are a whole PILE Of drives not listed here. Does that mean that mt -fxxxx status is just going to barf saying it doesn't know what the drive is, or will the system just map it to the closest code possible.... The reason I'm asking all these questions is that I plan to purchase a 2GB Sony or WangDAT DAT drive in the future and do a bunch of fiddling with the dump, mt, and rmt commands... Any thoughts or pointers to code would be greatly appreciated. Toodlepip! Marc em. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA "Satan has a stranglehold on my toilet and he won't let go!" - frm the Weekly World News