simon@dice.UUCP (Simon Kenyon) (07/12/84)
We have a vax-11/730, running 4.2bsd. We bought an eagle on an emulex sc-31. I decided that the ts-11 that we had would probably not be able to cope with the eagle and the r80, so we also bought a cipher and an emulex tc-12. This of course does not stream (it is the cipher cache streamer) But more to the point, we then got a pertec tape drive in for evaluation. So now we were in the situation of having 3 tape drives on a 730. Sounds pretty ridiculous I know, but try as hard as I could, I could not get all three configured. The uto config code would prod the first (the real ts-11), then the cipher, the first tape on the tc-12, and then go back and prod the real ts-11 again. By putting one or two printfs in ts.c, I could see that the csr address being given to it was 1, 2 and then 1 again (I think you will know what I mean by that) By looking at the little used second parameter to tsprobe (ctlr), the auto config code thought that it was on the 3rd controller. I was baffled and gave up after a while. I know that ts.c assumes that there will only ever be two devices, but I created an array of vectors. that is not the problem. It is purely of interest to myself, as the third tape drive has long gone, but I'd still like to know why. Any suggestions. Simon Kenyon { ...!decvax!mcvax or ...!vax135!ukc!edcaad } !dice!simon lat 55 51 49 long 3 31 46