On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 02:24:11PM -0500, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> 	I have here an ancient Irwin tape drive I decided to slap to my 5000/20
> just to see if the tape drive works.  When I did that and checked the
> configuration of the machine, this is what I got:
[SNIP]
>             DEV   PID                VID        REV    SCSI DEV
>             ===== ================== ========== ====== ========
>             rz0   MAVERICK 540S      QUANTUM    0901   DIR
>             rz4   BACKUP             IRWIN      C002   DIR
[SNIP]
> Wouldn't that mean that it sees the tape drive as a HD instead of a tape?
> And, what must you do to support the drive through tar?  This is soemthing
> I've really never done. =O

If I'm not mistaken, tapes need to be on ID 5 or 6.  (I have a TZK10 on
ID6 and it shows up as tz1 -- if it were on ID5 it would be tz0.)

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