Subject: Re: ts(4) / 9 track tape
To: None <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/09/2001 22:22:40
Well, I have tried to get the ts driver up-to-date, and with help of
Michael I had planned to test it today, but unfortunately I got occupied 
with a couple of other things (and tomorrow it's hockey Sweden-Rußland)

Anyway: I think that the ts driver should be working in a couple of days.

-- Ragge

> Hi.
> 
> A sparrow chirped to me that there is currently a new ts(4) under
> developement. Is that right? 
> I want to learn more about kernel internas. So I decided to rewirte the
> currently broken ts(4). This would also help to get my nice cipher 9
> track tape to work on the VAX. (It works already well on my PDP11/73.)
> But it would be a waste of time if there is already someone working on
> this.
> 
> BTW: I noticed that the Emulex QT14 (pertec tape controller that
> emulates TSV05 or TMSCP) is identical to the DEC TSV05 M7206. A M7206
> can only emulate the older M7196 TSV05. But a M7206 can be "upgraded"
> to a TMSCP speaking QT14 by replacing the DEC firmware with the Emulex
> firmware. :-)))
> -- 
> 
> 
> 
> tschüß,
>          Jochen
> 
> Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
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