[comp.sys.sgi] 9track tape via net ??

Dan Karron@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU (02/19/91)

I am attempting to use a 9 track cypher tape drive over the net.

I am getting this error message :

karron:~/D.mri/D.Tape1:105mt -t mcirps3:/dev/mt/xmtape stat
can't find remote shell program: No such file or directory
mcirps3:/dev/mt/xmtape: I/O error
Exit 1


What is wrong ? Where is the shell script ? Does remote tape drives
work for Cypher 9 track ?

Cheers!

dan.
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olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) (02/20/91)

In <9102190759.AA12069@karron.med.nyu.edu> Dan Karron@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU writes:
| I am attempting to use a 9 track cypher tape drive over the net.
| 
| I am getting this error message :
| karron:~/D.mri/D.Tape1:105mt -t mcirps3:/dev/mt/xmtape stat
| can't find remote shell program: No such file or directory
| mcirps3:/dev/mt/xmtape: I/O error
| Exit 1

Unfortunately, you don't say what kind of machine is on either end, or what
OS releases you are running.

My best guess, based on what you say, is that you have a 'non-standard' shell
on the machine where you issue the mt command, and that shell doesn't
exist on the remote machine.  You might try using:

mt -t guest@mcirps3:/dev/mt/xmtape stat
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	Dave Olson

Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.