Dear osf-gurus,
Having finally got a working cd-rom, I am now at the stage
of trying to configure our exabyte drive (TTI Series 8000XL CTS 8510). The
problem
is that whilst
rebuilding our kernel (for various reasons, to install our floppy drive
and to allow ISO 9660 cd's), the /dev/nrmt0h file went a.w.o.l - we didn't
have to rebuild the kernel to get the DEC 3000 to see the exabyte but the
original person who installed the exabyte drive has left.:-(
The tape drive still works
>>> show dev
BOOTDEV ADDR DEVTYPE RM/FX DEVNAM REV
MKA400 A/4/0 TAPE RM TK50 052D
This only occurs when the drive is switched on. So next
I then tried 'MAKEDEV tz0' which produced all the /dev/nrmt* and
/dev/rmt* e.g.
# ls -la /dev/nrmt0h
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 9, 3 Jun 9 13:57 /dev/nrmt0h
but the error when trying to use the tape drive is now:
# mt -f /dev/nrmt0h fsf 3
/dev/nrmt0h: No such device or address
tar tf and tar cvf produce the same results.
Can anyone give me any pointers?- I shall post a summary- I'm 99%
sure that it didn't involve a kernel rebuild to get the alpha to see the
drive (the kernel dates back to June 1994 and the drive is only 15 months
old). Any help will be most gratefully appreciated
Cheers,
Tim
Received on Mon Jun 09 1997 - 19:03:39 NZST