Hi there,

Looking around I have found the quirk table in st.c that could be modified
to allow the drive to work. When I tried to compile the kernel (took 4 hours
on Personal Dec 5000/25), it did not seem to reference this file.

What do I need to compile to include the changes in st.c and where do I
install the resulting binary?

I reconnected the drive to a FreeBSD box and was able tar/untar
successfully. I am hoping I can use the information returned from "mt
status" to modify the st.c quirk table.


Thanks,
Ash.

-----Original Message-----
From: port-pmax-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-pmax-owner@netbsd.org]On
Behalf Of Ash Garg
Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2001 11:10 AM
To: port-pmax@netbsd.org
Subject: HP 35480A Tape Drive


Guys, I got hold of the above tape drive and plugged it into my DEC
5000/125 running netbsd 1.4 but I don't know what to do from there...
IE I have never used tape drives before....

When I set the SCSI ID to 5 or 6, and I issue the "cnfg 3" command at
the boot prompt, the device is recognised. When NETBSD boots, the drive
appears as tz0 if the scsi id is 5 and tz1 if scsi id is 6.

I have tried mt and tar but the I keep getting an error message. How do
i troubleshoot this? I have tried this on a Freebsd box and I was able
to get the drive to spin write to the tape.

Some basics/introductory on how to use tape drives would be good as
well.

Thanks,
Ash