Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 21:48:52 -0500 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Opinions on which Tape Drive to Buy? Message-ID: <199802070248.VAA05875@whizzo.TransSys.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Feb 1998 10:10:06 PST." <199802061810.KAA22724@kithrup.com> References: Your message of Fri, 06 Feb 98 07:06:34 -0800. <XFMail.980206071311.dburr@POBoxes.com> <199802061810.KAA22724@kithrup.com>
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> I bought the drive for about $370 at a local (Sunnyvale, actually) store, > the Disk Drive Depot (aka CSC). It's the second DAT drive I bought from them > (the first, the same model only with DDS-1 + Compression, died a couple of > years after I boguht it). > > Incidently, does anyone know how to use the chio command to control this > sucker? I've never been able to get it to move tapes around, and get various > kernel messages when I try. Try something like chio move slot 0 drive 0 to load the first (0th) slot in the tape magazine into the (only) tape transport. To load the next tape, you have to chio move drive 0 slot 0 chio move slot 1 drive 0 It won't let you move a tape from the transport into an occupied slot. louie
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