tape drive support

Randy Jarrett WA4MEI rsj at wa4mei.UUCP
Tue Jun 13 13:11:10 AEST 1989


In article <726 at marob.masa.com> samperi at marob.masa.com (Dominick Samperi) writes:
++>Does anybody know how to specify the interrupt number/dma channel, etc. 
++>when a new kernel is built with streaming tape support? I tried simply
++>un-commenting the lines with "ar" in dfile.wini and master, and was
++>able to build and boot the resulting kernel, but the tape driver does
++>not work. When I write to the tape the drive motor constantly starts
++>and stops, and when I try to read the tape my system hangs. The controller
++>board is configured to use irq 3, I believe...
++>
++>-- 
++>Dominick Samperi -- ESCC
++>samperi at marob.masa.com
++>uunet!hombre!samperi


If you are using V/AT 2.4 then you need to check your master file.
uport had a mistake on the ar line. The entry in the prefix column
should be 'ar' not 'ev'.


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