-t Help needed with TU81 & 4.3BSD

[Leeland Heins]

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From: heins at atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Leeland Heins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: TU81 Tape drive controller question
Message-ID: <727 at atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 89 19:20:05 GMT
Reply-To: heins at atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Leeland Heins)
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Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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We're trying to bring 4.3 BSD up on a VAX 8250.  The tape drive we have
is a DEC TU81E (a.k.a. TU81 Plus).  Our current controller is a DEC KLESI-B
(VAXBI bus), which is unsupported under BSD.  We're willing to trade in our
KLESI-B for a KLESI-U (Unibus) if it works.

We're now trying to find either a driver for the KLESI-B or anyone who
has experience using KLESI-U with the TU81.  Both of these cards speak the
DEC TMSCP protocol.

I've talked with Chris Torek who did the KDB-50 (VAXBI disk controller)
support, and he said that he "assumed" the KLESI-U would work (perhaps with
some minor patches) with the BSD TMSCP driver, but was not sure.  Has anyone
tried using KLESI-U?  Or in general, has anyone got the TU81 working on under
4.2 or 4.3BSD?

Lee Heins
EXNET Programmer, Iowa State U.

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