Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!cs.uoregon.edu!skinner.cs.uoregon.edu!renga From: renga@perpetua.cs.uoregon.edu (Renganathan Sundararajan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: HP 9000/835, HP-UX 7.0 - unable to use cartridge tape drive Message-ID: Date: 13 Jan 91 00:02:53 GMT Sender: news@cs.uoregon.edu (Netnews Owner) Distribution: comp.sys.hp Organization: Dept. of Computer & Information Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR Lines: 58 System: HP 9000/835 running HP-UX 7.0 ----------------------------------------- We have hp9145 32-track cartridge tape drive and I cannot access the tape drive using any of the sp. files in /dec/rct or /dev/ct. My guess is that when HP-UX 7.0 was installed (by another person, well-versed in BSD & SUN OS, but not that familiar with HP-UX), the dev file corresponding to our ct drive was either not created or the previous one was overwritten by mistake. The foll. shell script foreach i (/dev/rct/* /dev/ct/*) echo $i ls | cpio -o | tcio -oV -S 8 -v $1 sleep 2 end produces error msgs of the form. /dev/rct/c0d0s2 tcio(1004): cannot access tape /dev/rct/c0d0s2%; errno 2 /dev/rct/c6d0s2 tcio(1004): cannot access tape /dev/rct/c6d0s2; errno 6 /dev/rct/c1000d0s2 tcio(1004): cannot access tape /dev/rct/c1000d0s2; errno 19 I don't have a clue as to what these error numbers mean. Doesn't HP-UX check at boot time for devices attached to the system and warn if the corresponding drivers and/or special files don't exist? This may be a naive question but bear with me. How can I get the tape drive working? There is apparently nothing wrong with the drive itself. Thanks in advance for your help. Renga -------------------------------------------------------------------- Renga Sundararajan Department of Computer Science University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1202 INTERNET: renga@cs.uoregon.edu CSNET: renga@uoregon.csnet USENET: {decvax, allegra}!tektronix!uoregon!renga -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Renga Sundararajan Department of Computer Science University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1202 INTERNET: renga@cs.uoregon.edu CSNET: renga@uoregon.csnet USENET: {decvax, allegra}!tektronix!uoregon!renga --------------------------------------------------------------------