Using the digital audio tape, TLZ04 (summary)

Steve Thompson thompson at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu
Fri Jan 11 03:31:37 AEST 1991


In article <50511 at cornell.UUCP> chinch at cs.cornell.edu (Shirish Chinchalkar) writes:
>    First of all, DEC does not officially support TLZ04 with Ultrix 4.0, so I
>will have to get Ultrix 4.1. However it is possible to use it with ultrix 4.0.
>One needs to use "MAKEDEV tzn" where "n" is the SCSI number of the tape drive.
>The MAKEDEV script will create the files "/dev/rmtyh" and "/dev/nrmtyh" where
>"y" is the next available digit that has not been used yet (MAKEDEV prints
>the names out as it creates these files). The files "/dev/rmtyh" and
>"/dev/nrmtyh" can now be used to access the tape drive.
>
>    I tried it and it worked like a charm.
>

It works under Ultrix 3.1D as well; we've used a TLZ04 under 3.1 for
about a month now.

Steve



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