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From: volker@carlotta.iam.uni-bonn.de (Volker A. Brandt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Wangtek tape drive
Date: 30 Sep 1996 19:47:53 GMT
Organization: Inst.f.Appl.Math., University of Bonn
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <52p859$122i@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
References: <ZOLTAN.96Sep30223059@vackor.bendor.com.au>

In article <ZOLTAN.96Sep30223059@vackor.bendor.com.au> zoltan@bendor.com.au (Zoltan Kocsi) writes:
>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

I used to see this too, with 1.2alpha it changed ... so upgrade to 1.2 when it
comes out.

>No program that wants to write to the tape succeeds, even mt eof
>results a whole load of 'illegal request: <lotsa hex dump>' responses.

Strange, I have never seen that.  I used to be able to read and write just 
fine, except that now in 1.2beta the write always fails -- an Exabyte works
with the same kernel.

Have you configured your 5525ES to be SCSI2?  If not, there's a Wangtek FAQ
around c.p.scsi that tells you where to get the program that does this.
(ftp.rexon.com?) 


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