06-18-2010
Tape Drive Configuration
Dear All,
I have a tape drive which has worked for offer 3yrs properly on SCO Openserver Release = 3.2v5.0.5. I tried to clean it all invain. I did a fresh installation of unix of the same OS and did the configuration still didn't bear fruits. The tape is a scsi and the configuration is as follows:
- Attached to adaptec 2940U2W - 7800 family
mkdev tape
1. Scsi tape drive
2. Scsi host adapter - blad for blad325
3. blad scsi host adapter - 0
4. scsi bus - 0
5. target id - 6
6. LUN of id - 0
and then updates the kernel.
When i try to backup or list contents of the tape drive using this command :-
tar cvfb /dev/rStp0 20 /u i get this error:-
tar: cannot open: /dev/rStp0
Please give a hand on this since am supposed to do full system backup.
Joseph Njoroge
Last edited by njoroge; 06-18-2010 at 10:31 AM..
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tms(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual tms(4)
Name
tms - TMSCP magnetic tape interface
Syntax
For UNIBUS, Q-bus:
controller klesiu0 at uba0
controller uq0 at klesiu0 csr 0174500 vector uqintr
tape tms0 at uq0 drive 0
For MSI Bus:
adapter msi0 at nexus?
controller dssc0 at msi0 msinode 0
tape tms0 at dssc0 drive 3
For VAXBI:
controller klesib0 at vaxbi0 node 0
controller uq0 at klesib0 vector uqintr
tape tms0 at uq0 drive 0
controller aie0 at vaxbi? node?
controller bvpssp0 at aie0 vector bvpsspintr
tape tms0 at bvpssp0 drive 0
For MSI Bus:
adapter msi0 at nexus?
controller dssc0 at msi0 msinode 0
tape tms0 at dssc0 drive 0
For VAX CI/HSC:
adapter ci0 at nexus?
adapter ci0 at vaxbi? node?
controller hsc0 at ci0 cinode 6
tape tms0 at hsc0 drive 3
Description
Prior to Version 2.0, this device was referenced by tmscp(4).
The TMSCP driver provides a standard tape drive interface, as described in This is a driver for any controller that adheres to the Tape
Mass Storage Control Protocol (TMSCP). The TMSCP controllers communicate with the host through a packet-oriented protocol termed the Tape
Mass Storage Control Protocol. This driver also supports n-buffered reads and writes to the raw tape interface (used with streaming tape
drives). See for further details.
Tape Support
TK50, TK70, TF70, TU81, TU81e, TA78, TA79, TA81, RV20, TA90, TA90E, TA91
Diagnostics
All diagnostic messages are sent to the error logger subsystem.
Files
See Also
mtio(4), nbuf(4), MAKEDEV(8), uerf(8), tapex(8)
Guide to the Error Logger
tms(4)