aj4640@dean1.usma.edu (Robertson John MAJ) (08/30/90)
Can aix 1.2 talk to the internal tape unit? That's the one that sits in the second drive bay on a model 70. If so, what device does it respond to? Jack Robertson
hh2@prism.gatech.EDU (HAAS) (08/31/90)
In article <247@dean1.usma.edu> you write: > >Can aix 1.2 talk to the internal tape unit? That's the one that sits >in the second drive bay on a model 70. If so, what device does it >respond to? > >Jack Robertson It seems that IBM must have forgotten this drive when they put together AIX. After much searching I found that I had to file an RPQ (?) with IBM. For me, all this meant was calling my IBM rep and giving her this number: Model DGL, RPQ# P91038, and agree to pay $17.50 when the disk arrives. What I got was the "IBM AIX/PS/2 Internal Tape Device Driver 5799-DGL" Now this was back when I was running Ver. 1.1, so 1.2 MAY have the driver built in. I beleive you would find it under: /usr/lpp/itbu The driver works fairly well, but you cannot mount the drive, only backup and restore to/from it. Also the documentation on the RPQ is vertually non-existant. You have to read through the file: /usr/lpp/itbu/doc/itdu.man (the manual page that comes with it.) Hope this helps. Harry Haas -- Harry Haas GTRI/RIDL/DB "What makes it DO that!?" - Bones Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!hh2 Internet: hh2@prism.gatech.edu hhaas@{gtri01|rmadsun}.gatech.edu