wangtek retensioning problems -- tapecntl included
James R. Howard
jrh at mustang.dell.com
Tue Feb 13 12:59:58 AEST 1990
In article <Q4RC6HB at geminix.UUCP>, gemini at geminix.UUCP (Uwe Doering) writes:
[ semi-infinite amounts of quotation deleted ]
> >The real and simple solution is to use the tapecntl(1) command:
> OK, but this doesn't help me right now. And you should know that it
> doesn't matter so much what brand the streamer itself is, but what
> device driver you have in your UNIX. This is the one the tapecntl(1)
> command has to cope with. And I'm quite sure that the ISC wt driver
> won't understand the tapecntl(1) ioctl-calls. This should be the
> reason why this utility isn't shipped with 386/ix.
>
> After all, writing device drivers is the main task the UNIX vendors
> do, and as long as there is no standard how things should be done
> every vendor will invent its own driver interface to the application
> programs.
>
> But of course this doesn't explain why ISC doesn't ship its own utility
> for the wt streamer. Maybe I've looked at the wrong places. If someone
> (hello ISC) knows better please tell us.
>
> Uwe
Actually, the ISC wt driver, DOES support the tapecntl calls.
How do I know this? Because Dell UNIX 386/ix (Which is ISC based,
with enhancements) has tapecntl, and it works with the wt driver.
I have a Wangtek 150MB TBU, and it works fine with it.
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