Apple 40Meg Tape Drive for AUX
Donn S. Fishbein
donn at radar.uucp
Mon Jul 24 01:04:05 AEST 1989
root at advsln.UUCP (root) writes:
>...and performed a mknod /dev/rmt/tc1 b 9 0 and mknod /dev/rmt/tc1n b 9 0 to
>create the appropriate special files (tape is on SCSI id 1).
>The problem is that : (1) I guessed at the minor number, though I thought 0
>seems reasonable and (2) tar, cpio etc can not open the device.
>I also set the owner and group on the special files to bin.
>Can someone shed some light on my problem and how
>does one go about formatting the tapes (diskformat does not seem to be
>the right utility).
Here's a couple of lines from my /dev/rmt:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 9, 0 Jul 2 12:29 tc0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 9, 8 Jul 2 12:29 tc0n
crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 9, 1 Jul 2 12:29 tc1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 9, 9 Jul 2 12:29 tc1n
..(The minor number is the SCSI ID, or +8 for the tcXn device)
As far as formatting tapes, the only thing I've been able to figure
out is to use Tape Backup 40SC under MacOS.
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Donn S. Fishbein ..attctc!radar!donn
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