28 Oct
2001
28 Oct
'01
5:53 p.m.
My VMS 5.4 does detect the TU81 just fine, calls it
MUB0 and
allows me to mount it and write files to it. I think I have
now a bootable 9-track reel with at least the first 10
files of the Ultrix 4.1 bootable tape ready to go with all
blocksizes as required. It was fun writing!
If you could write to the TU81 from VMS then the drive should
be working fine.
So I tried checking for the TU81's unit number
(may be it's
MU1 or MU4 or MU213, who knows? First thing is when I power
up the TU81 it shows 000 on the front panel, but as soon
as it is initialized the display remains blank. So, perhaps
it has no unit number set at all?
The drive is unit 0, since VMS sees it as MUB0.
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Eric Dittman
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