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From: khaw@pplace.COM (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo-Sun cartridge tape reading thru tar?
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Date: 15 Jun 89 20:36:01 GMT
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<8906150532.AA02968@umix.cc.umich.edu>, by GBOPOLY1@NUSVM.BITNET (fclim):
> There's is a question of QIC24 that I can't answer.  This is available
> on Sun cartridge tape drive.  If your Sun has this, then probably you
> can't do file transfers between Apollo and Sun.

This confused me.  My experience is that your Sun MUST have a drive that
does QIC-24 format to interoperate with an Apollo.  Conventionally, a
Sun with a single cartridge drive uses /dev/rst0 (and /dev/nrst0) for
QIC-11, and /dev/rst8 (and /dev/nrst8) for QIC-24.  Some old Suns have
drives that only do QIC-11 (which is why SunOS used to be distributed on
tapes that you had to read with /dev/rst0) but most of the Suns I've used
do both formats (and as of SunOS 4.0, the distribution tapes are made to
be read with /dev/rst8).

Mike Khaw
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