schorr@ead.dsa.com (Andrew J. Schorr) (10/10/90)
We have a Sun Sparcstation 1 with an Exabyte 8mm drive attached to it. We also have an IBM RS/6000 320. We also have an 8mm patch tape. I'll bet you can guess what I want to do. However, if I follow the patch instructions, I am never given the opportunity to specify a remote tape drive. Perhaps it was naive of me to assume that IBM would support the rmt protocol for using remote tape drives (or perhaps I'm not looking in the right place). I know that the Sun can read the tape, as I have been able to use dd to read the files on the tape. I find it hard to believe that IBM expects me to purchase a tape drive for their machine when I already have tape drives available on other machines on the network. I imagine the official response might be that I can use diskettes to load the patch, but I don't consider that an acceptable response. Can anyone tell me how to install the patch using a tape drive attached to a remote machine? Perhaps the answer to this question is RTFM, but, if so, please tell me how to find the relevant manual (probably somewhere in InfoExplorer, but where!?!?!). -Andy