On Fri, 16 Feb 1996 19:59:19 -0500 
 Michael Richardson <mcr@gateway.sandelman.ocunix.on.ca> wrote:

 >     James> guess I took a lot for granted.  I'm just not sure what to
 >     James> do when I say 'mt -f /dev/nrst0 st' and it comes back 'mt:
 >     James> Unknown tape drive type 7'.  (It's an Archive Python 4mm
 >     James> (DAT), BTW.).  Are the registers implemented correctly?

"registers implemented correctly"??  Umm, ok...

 >   The irony about this, is that this appears to be a problem with
 > *mt*, not entirely the device driver. 
 >   I have a 4mm WANGTEK, 6130-HS, 4B18, and it says this, but it seems
 > to function resonably well on my sun3. (Remember we have MI-SCSI..)

Actually, there is an outstanding PR in the database to improve "mt 
status" for SCSI tapes.  One of us should get around to looking at it in 
our copious spare time one of these days.

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