> Hi,
> 
> does anyone have experience connecting a QIC tape drive to a DS3100?
> The drive is prperly detected at bootup, but any attemp to access it 
> vat 'mt' or 'tar' gives nothing but "illegal request" erros :-(  To
> make it really strange, the same drive works perfectly on a 5000/200
> running also 1.3.2 .  My suspicion ios therefore that something goes
> wrong in the sii driver...any ideas?
> 
> Alfred Arnold  

Hello..... I have the same question.

I was given a very nice Archive Viper 150mb half-height scsi tape
drive that I was wanting to bring up on my old DS2100/3100 box
(it is supposedly a 3100 board in a 2100 case?).  The idea was
to hang the tape in the 1/2 height bay in the main cpu case
rather than trying to cobble up some sort of external drive box.

It currently runs NetBSD-1.3.1, but is running out of disk space.
I was thinking of totally redoing an install onto an RZ26 drive
(1.0gig), and hoping I could use the Viper tape drive as an
install medium after dd'ing a root image onto the drive, and
swapping out the old 200mb drive.

So the question is.... will the Archive Viper QIC tape drive work
correctly with the DS3100 or do I need to try a different install
approach?

I have enough parts to possibly cobble together a second DS2100
box, and maybe use that for network installing, instead, but I
really did want to hang some sort of tape on one of the machines
that could use standard DC-6150 tapes.  Is that reasonable, and
will the drivers handle it correctly or do I need to stick to
that funny DEC tape thing?  I was thinking there was some sort
of DC-6150 tape available for the machines (TZ210 or something
like that, but now I am beginning to get confused).

Any pointers are appreciated.  DECstations are not my forte....

Thanks....

Bob Keys