weigele@bosun1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Martin Weigele) (02/15/91)
Meanwhile I have partly sucessfully connected a SUN streamer tape (120 MB) which I borrowed from a SUNsparc station. In fact the sparc station uses the same cable to connect to the streamer as needs my NeXT station. The streamer tape is successfully SCSI-recognized during boot, and it is possible to "mt -f /dev/nrst0 <command>" as well as with /dev/rst0. This seems to work. However, tar-ing or dd-ing from or to tapes results in "i/o errors" (I tried with more then one tape). I wonder if there is any "configuration trick". Unfortunately the otherwise detailed documentation (about ODs and Exabyte drives) does give very little documentation about /dev/rst0 type streamers. Martin