QIC tape drives

CD Rasmussen cdr at sme.siemens.com
Wed Aug 9 14:31:10 EDT 1995


What a typo!

   To: linux-sig at bcs.org
   Subject: Re: QIC tape drives 
   Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 13:51:36 -0400
   From: CD Rasmussen <cdr at sme.siemens.com>
   
   Just say yes to the standard SCSI tape question, I believe its right
   after the SCSI tape drive question in config.  Make sure your machine
                  ^^^^
        should be disk

   has a /dev/rst0 and when you boot, the SCSI driver will say that it
   found 1 SCSI tape.
   
   I recommend using the mt_st found on sunsite.unc.edu and it mirrors.
   It has commands for SCSI tape that are not supported by the standard
   GNU mt.  I have replaced the GNU mt with the mt in the mt_st package.
   Some people with QIC-150 tapes find that they do not need the
   alternate version of mt.  BTW, the alternate comes from BSD, it was
   not specially written to solve SCSI problems in Linux.






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