23 Feb
2003
23 Feb
'03
10:13 a.m.
Er yes, it's one of the most reliable tape drivers and controller mixes
that the OS supports. I occasionally have had problems when the drive
itself has had a nervous breakdown but apart from that it is very good.
Robin
In message <1045969485.30181.9.camel(a)www.4mcnabb.net>et>, Christopher
McNabb <cmcnabb(a)vt.edu> writes
I have a TS05 tape drive and TSV05 controller. The
TS11 driver for
211BSD seems to be close to what I need, but not exactly. I can
forward, reverse, offline, and run status commands using 'mt', but any
attempt to read or write data results in a hard error:
----
# ansitape -t
ts0: hard error bn0 xs0=310<MOT,ONL,PED> xs1=20402<COR,-,UNC>
xs2=100000<OPM> xs3=40<REV>
ts0: hard error bn0 xs0=310<MOT,ONL,PED> xs1=20402<COR,-,UNC>
xs2=100000<OPM> xs3=40<REV>
ts0: hard error bn0 xs0=10310<RLL,MOT,ONL,PED> xs1=20402<COR,-,UNC>
xs2=100000<OPM> xs3=40<REV>
unknown record mode (n) - file 7 skipped
t - 7: 0 lines (0 chars) in 0 tape blocks
----
This continues ad-nauseum until Ctrl-C is pressed.
So, it looks like the TS11 driver is "almost, but not quite" good
enough. Before I start attempting to re-invent the wheel, has anyone
had success getting a TSV05/TS05 working under 2.11BSD?
--
Robin Birch