pitlog
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I'll try to make a long and growing story short
I have an AT&T 3B2/600-G up and running. It's a beautiful machine with 64MB, 2 processors, SCSI, and lots more. Everything works. It's booting the basic OS (SVR3.2.3) off a newish SCSI drive. But all I have on it is the core SVR3 OS. I have lots more to put on there.
The other software I have is in the form of tape images that I need to get onto 120MB QIC tapes. The machine has an ancient, but working, Wangtek 5125ES tape drive that can read tapes fine.
So I figured I'd pull the drive, stick it on another machine, and write the tapes from there.
Right?
The problem is that SVR4 does not seem to recognize the drive at all. SunOS 4.1.4 sees the drive but will not stream it. It goes into head-buffing mode with a backspace after ever 512B block. I'd kill the poor old drive making tapes that way.
Next I will build a SCSI-based Linux box and try there. Maybe Linux has a driver for this ancient and not very common drive. I'm not optimistic.
Finally, I thought about writing a new entry for the drive in st_conf.c in SunOS and recompiling the kernel. Unfortunately I've lost the meager skilz I may once have had in SunOS, and there is no documentation available for the drive that I can find.
Any other wisdom out there? Does anyone else have a machine like this who can create a couple of 120MB tapes for me?
Thanks,
Tom
I have an AT&T 3B2/600-G up and running. It's a beautiful machine with 64MB, 2 processors, SCSI, and lots more. Everything works. It's booting the basic OS (SVR3.2.3) off a newish SCSI drive. But all I have on it is the core SVR3 OS. I have lots more to put on there.
The other software I have is in the form of tape images that I need to get onto 120MB QIC tapes. The machine has an ancient, but working, Wangtek 5125ES tape drive that can read tapes fine.
So I figured I'd pull the drive, stick it on another machine, and write the tapes from there.
Right?
The problem is that SVR4 does not seem to recognize the drive at all. SunOS 4.1.4 sees the drive but will not stream it. It goes into head-buffing mode with a backspace after ever 512B block. I'd kill the poor old drive making tapes that way.
Next I will build a SCSI-based Linux box and try there. Maybe Linux has a driver for this ancient and not very common drive. I'm not optimistic.
Finally, I thought about writing a new entry for the drive in st_conf.c in SunOS and recompiling the kernel. Unfortunately I've lost the meager skilz I may once have had in SunOS, and there is no documentation available for the drive that I can find.
Any other wisdom out there? Does anyone else have a machine like this who can create a couple of 120MB tapes for me?
Thanks,
Tom