On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:

# Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:24:03 -0800 (PST)
# From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
# To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
# Cc: BSD Current Users <current-users@netbsd.org>
# Subject: Re: mt -f /dev/nrst0 [anything] -> ENODEV
# 
# 
# Possibly. I could never get the 4200c to work when I was at Legato. The drive
# is likely being seen okay, but I'll be basic 'mount' operations are
# failing. Umm, do the usual drill with SCSIDEBUG to try and track down where
# from stopen it's failing.

Hm.  Is there a utility which would let me send raw device commands down
the pipe to the device, or is this not supported at the moment?

[Probably not, but I thought I'd ask.  Well, over to SCSIDEBUG.
 It's severely baffling, though!]

# 
# I doubt it's a quirk entry, but anything is possible.
# 
# On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Greywolf wrote:
# 
# > Greetings;
# > 
# > I have just decided to replace my EXB-8200 with an EXB-4200c (given to me
# > by a friend).  I'm having some problems, one in particular, which are
# > driving me nuts.
# > 
# > First and foremost, any command given to mt -f /dev/nrst0 meets
# > resistance with "Operation not supported by device".
# > 
# > Secondly, I put DDS-60 tapes in (DDS1 spec), and it keeps spittin' 'em
# > out, and I don't know why.  I think this might be a hw error.
# > 
# > I do note the conspicuous absence of a EXB-4200c drive in the st.c
# > tables, but the machine (SPARCstation 5/170 [karch sun4m]) seems
# > to have no problem in recognizing the drive at boot time (i.e. it doesn't
# > say "...not configured" after finding the drive).
# > 
# > Is this just a matter of a missing quirk entry for this thing, or what?
# > 
# > 
# > 				--*greywolf;
# > --
# > *BSD: u_long uptime;
# > 
# 
# 


				--*greywolf;
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