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From: mikej@lilink.com (Michael R. Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Colorado Memory Systems Tapes from boot floppies
Keywords: Tapes, File Restoration
Message-ID: <1990Mar29.063225.11197@lilink.com>
Date: 29 Mar 90 06:32:25 GMT
References: <3569@thebes.Thalatta.COM>
Reply-To: mikej@lilink.UUCP (Michael R. Johnston)
Organization: Lilink Public Xenix, Long Island NY
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In article <3569@thebes.Thalatta.COM> campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
>I have been unable to access the CMS ``Jumbo'' tape drive from bootable
>floppies on Xenix 2.3.3.  Yes, I did make the boot floppies after
>installing the jtape drivers.
>
>When I try the command ``tar -tvf /dev/rmt0'' I get the message
>from tar that it cannot open /dev/rmt0.  Has anyone made this work?

You have to make the device files as well. It works for me once you do a 

	mknod /dev/rmt0 c 17 0


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