Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ism.isc.com!ism780c!support
From: support@ism780c.isc.com (Support account)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCSI tape install problem with ISC 2.2
Message-ID: <49334@ism780c.isc.com>
Date: 9 Oct 90 18:30:47 GMT
References: <LARRY.90Oct5114130@focsys.uucp>
Reply-To: support@ism780c.UUCP (Support account)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <LARRY.90Oct5114130@focsys.uucp> larry@focsys.uucp (Larry Williamson) writes:
>
>I've installed a Wantek 5125es tape drive in our ISC2.2 system. I
>can't open to the new device. Using dd(1) to open /dev/tape, it fails
>with the error message...
>	dd: cannot create /dev/tape: No such device or address
>
One more thing to check would be DMA channel settings. In software,
this parameter is contained the rightmost field of the file
/etc/conf/cf.d/mdevice (documented in mdevice(4)), in this
case on the "tape" line. For this particular device, the field
should be either 5 or 6, matching the setting in hardware. If
the software doesn't match hardware, or if that field is set to
"-1" (meaning device doesn't use DMA), this error message can
result.

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