I can't go very far with the EXB8200 because I don't have a cartridge for it. I am now trying the Compaq DLT4000.
Unfortunately there is not a lot the on-board Dilog diagnostics can do. I have tried sedning direct commands to it such as unload, but nothing ha[p[pens.it is my oinly hope to get some tapoe backup! If I try: dd if=/dev/mt0 of=/dev/null I get dd: /dev/mt0: Input/output error But if I try another LUN I get e.g. dd: /dev/mt1: Device not configured So it looks like it is recognising the drive. Maybe Compaq DLTs required something that the controller of NetBSD driver does no know about. Since I have lost the MTI TSV05 QIC2 controller cheers, Nigel Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! Skype: TILBURY2591 nw.john...@ieee.org On 2021-01-30 8:52 p.m., Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 5:41 PM Nigel Johnson via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> btw, I found an Exabyte 8200 in a pile of stuff I bought at VCF East >> last year (but one :-) ) Does anybody on the list have experience >> getting this to work on a Dilog SQ703 under NetBSD? > I'm not sure if I have tried an EXB-8200 and Dilog SQ703 combination, > I might have. > I know I have used an EXB-8200 and CMD CQD-220/TM combination numerous > times to install 2.11BSD and RSTS/E 10.1 from tape on PDP-11 systems. > That has worked well for me. > > I haven't done much with tape on MicroVAX systems.
