Need help installing Irwin mini

[Dave Eisen]

In article <1746 at utoday.UUCP> sean at utoday.UUCP (Sean Fulton) writes:
>
>We have an Irwin mini tape drive for use on an Everex Step 385/25
>running Xenix 2.3 and am unable to get Xenix to recognize the drive.
>
>Constant error messages are something akin to:
>
>	 "Can't <whatever> /dev/xct0"
>
>I believe the *ct0 devices are for full-sized cartridge tapes.
>

I suspect that you want to change the default tape device (in /etc/default/tape)
to /dev/rctmini from its usual setting of /dev/xct0.



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