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From: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: CMS Jumbo tape drive and 2.3.2
Keywords: CMS Jumbo Shrimp Spam
Message-ID: <5378@thebes.Thalatta.COM>
Date: 13 Aug 90 14:20:20 GMT
References: <28@herctec.UUCP> <265@bradf.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
Lines: 39

In article <265@bradf.UUCP> brad@bradf.UUCP (Bradley W. Fisher) writes:
:In article <28@herctec.UUCP>, root@herctec.UUCP (Super user) writes:
:> 
:> 	My setup:
:| 
:| 	Xenix 286 2.3.2, Update level R
:| 
:| 	My problem:  I just installed a Colorado Memory Systems "Jumbo"
:| mini tape drive that attaches to my floppy controller.  I installed this
:| in a DOS machine and it worked beautifully.  Soooo, I thought I'd put it
:| in my Xenix box [.........]
:| 
:| 	Followed everything by the book (several times), but "format
:| /dev/rctmini" pauses for a few seconds, then spins the floppy drive,
:| then eventually comes back with "can't open /dev/rctmini."
:| 
:The last time I ran up against one of these drives, I had the same
:problem. A client asked me to move it from a DOS box to their new SCO
:XENIX unit. After having the same kind of problems,I finally found out that
:there are two versions of the PAL on the controller board ... one for DOS, and
:one for XENIX (or so the fourth person I talked to at CMS said!).
:
:Fortunately, I was able to talk my client into putting the CMS back into the
:DOS machine ... and putting a Wangtek 5150EK into the XENIX box.
: 
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:						     | 2465 W. 12th St. #6
:	-== Brad Fisher ==- 		             | Tempe, Arizona  85281
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The basic problem is the the proper device when using the CMS
drives is /dev/rmt0 NOT /dev/rctmini.

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