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From: eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: help with tape drive? (naive)
Keywords: TK-50 Magnetic Tape Mount
Message-ID: <8775@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Feb 91 10:27:06 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Edinburgh University
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Apologies for this naive question, but I am new to workstations. I have
a DECstation 2100 in front of me, which has a TK50 drive. I have a TK50
tape with lots of public domain goodies. What do I do next?

I cannot discover how to mount the drive (in software terms, not hardware)
let alone inspect the software.

(when booting, the DEC recognises a TK50 at `tz4' but there is no such
thing in /dev. `setld -l /dev/rmt0h' yields a message telling me to put
tape unit 4 online, but the green light is on already.)

			Thanks for any help on this...


							...John Woods

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