wrk@abic.UUCP (08/11/86)
I'm trying to install BSD4.{2,3} on an 11/780 which has 3 RA-81 disks
and a TU-81 tape drive. I know that the TU-81 is not a supported device
in the distribution, but that's all I've got. Does anyone have information
(or better yet, a driver) for a TU-81 under BSD?
Thanks in advance.
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...!{decvax,masscomp,pyramid,cwruecmp}!abic!wrkchris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) (08/12/86)
In article <846@abic.UUCP> wrk@abic.UUCP writes: >I'm trying to install BSD4.{2,3} on an 11/780 ... [with] a TU-81 >tape drive. Does anyone have information (or better yet, a driver) >for a TU-81 under BSD? The TU81 (and the TA81) is what DEC calls a `TMSCP' tape. TMSCP is supposedly closely related to that well-guarded, secret protocol called MSCP. (The protocol is quite obviously secret, for only DEC's competitors can buy DEC's documentation on it. Or at least, their competitors *did* buy it, and now DEC is not selling it to anyone. Does that make sense?) Fortunately, at least one person at DEC seems to have retained a shred of sanity where this is concerned. The 4.3BSD distribution contains a TMSCP driver supplied by DEC. As Berkeley has no TMSCP devices, this is perforce untested; but it is by far better than nothing. The driver has a large DEC copyright notice at the top, and as I intend to distribute an MSCP driver that has hooks for the inclusion of a TMSCP driver as well, I have looked no further at it. (No doubt this will become painfully evident to anyone who attempts to merge their driver with my generic MSCP code.) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 1516) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@mimsy.umd.edu
muller@sdcc7.ucsd.EDU (Keith Muller) (08/12/86)
Though I never tried it, the file sys/vaxuba/tmscp.c in the 4.3 BSD distribution claims to be a TU81 driver. Keith Muller University of California, San Diego