Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!decwrl!pa.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!engage!ketje.enet.dec.com!de_boever From: de_boever@ketje.enet.dec.com (Jan De Boever) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Jumbo 120 tape and SCO UNIX V3.2.1 Message-ID: <1991Feb12.164236.22135@engage.enet.dec.com> Date: 12 Feb 91 22:29:10 GMT Sender: news@engage.enet.dec.com (USENET News System) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 34 I possess a Jumbo 120 tape streamer from Colorado Memory Systems. I can successfully use it from within plain DOS. The drive is hanging from my floppy controller. This controller now controls a 3"5 drive and the Jumbo. As I have switched to SCO/ODT I'd like to continue to use the same tape drive to do my UNIX backups. I was led to believe that this tape drive would work with the standard drivers included with SCO-UNIX V3.2.1. 1. I ran "mkdev tape". 2. I removed support of all tape drives. 3a. I included support for mini-cartridge (irwin-tapes) 3b. I included support for QIC-40 tapes 4. I rebuilt the kernel 5. I rebooted the system In both cases (1,2,3a,4,5 or 1,2,3b,4,5) the tape drive sits happely waiting for my beard to grow and doesn't do anything else: which was less than I hoped for as you may imagine. The tape has a few jumpers for which I do not have any documentation. Furthermore fiddling around with them didn't change anything in its behaviour. Am I forgetting something obvious? Is this drive supported at all ? Is there anyone out there with some experience with this drive ? Thanks, Jan De Boever de_boever@ketje.enet.dec.com --or-- ...!decwrl!ketje.enet.dec.com!de_boever Digital Brussels --or-- de_boever%ketje.dec@decwrl.dec.com #include My employer may not endorse the above prose or views. Neither may I...