[comp.sys.next] QIC 24/150 cartridge tape?

treed@odie.UUCP (Timothy Reed) (11/16/90)

I have an old (unfortunately, three to six months constitutes
old nowadays - the only hardware that hasn't undergone a major 
change in functionality is emacs!) QIC-24 tape drive in an
external SCSI enclosure.  Unfortunately, version 1
of the next OS doesn't support this format tape; when booting
up I get all kinds of amusing error messages regarding the
system's inability to read the tape drive's disk label.  Of course,
all my jumpers and whatnot are OK.  

Has anyone gotten a QIC 24 or 150 sun-type tapedrive to work with
either 1.0 or 2.0?  This is really frustrating since the physical 
devices are there - /dev/rst0 and /dev/rst1 - but no kernel
support or working drivers.

Thanks!

Tim Reed
treed@object.com

Gotham Users of NeXT, Inc.
Objective Technologies, Inc.
Objective Industries, Ltd.