I can't go very far with the EXB8200 because I don't have a cartridge
for it.? I am now trying the Compaq DLT4000.
Unfortunately there is not a lot the on-board Dilog diagnostics can do.?
I have tried sedning direct commands to it such as unload, but nothing
ha[p[pens.it is my oinly hope to get some tapoe backup!
If I try:
dd if=/dev/mt0
of=/dev/null??????????????????????????????????????????????????
I get dd: /dev/mt0: Input/output error
But if I try another LUN I get e.g.
dd: /dev/mt1: Device not configured???
So it looks like it is recognising the drive.
Maybe Compaq DLTs required something that the controller of NetBSD
driver does no know about.
Since I have lost the MTI TSV05 QIC2 controller
cheers,
Nigel
Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU
Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept!
Skype: TILBURY2591 nw.johnson at
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On 2021-01-30 8:52 p.m., Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 5:41 PM Nigel Johnson via
cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
btw, I found an Exabyte 8200 in a pile of stuff I
bought at VCF East
last year (but one :-) ) Does anybody on the list have experience
getting this to work on a Dilog SQ703 under NetBSD?
I'm not sure if I have
tried an EXB-8200 and Dilog SQ703 combination,
I might have.
I know I have used an EXB-8200 and CMD CQD-220/TM combination numerous
times to install 2.11BSD and RSTS/E 10.1 from tape on PDP-11 systems.
That has worked well for me.
I haven't done much with tape on MicroVAX systems.