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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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