Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!rzsun2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de!bosun1!weigele From: weigele@bosun1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Martin Weigele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Sun tape streamer (was: silly cables) Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 09:37:47 GMT References: <1991Feb14.173537.16342@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Hamburg, FRG Lines: 14 Meanwhile I have partly sucessfully connected a SUN streamer tape (120 MB) which I borrowed from a SUNsparc station. In fact the sparc station uses the same cable to connect to the streamer as needs my NeXT station. The streamer tape is successfully SCSI-recognized during boot, and it is possible to "mt -f /dev/nrst0 " as well as with /dev/rst0. This seems to work. However, tar-ing or dd-ing from or to tapes results in "i/o errors" (I tried with more then one tape). I wonder if there is any "configuration trick". Unfortunately the otherwise detailed documentation (about ODs and Exabyte drives) does give very little documentation about /dev/rst0 type streamers. Martin