mt - TM78/ TU-78 MASSBUS magtape interface
mt* at mscpbus? drive?
The TM78/ TU-78 combination provides a standard tape drive
interface as
described in mtio(4). Only 1600 and 6250 BPI are supported;
the TU-78
runs at 125 IPS and autoloads tapes.
mu%d: no write ring. An attempt was made to write on the
tape drive when
no write ring was present; this message is written on the
terminal of the
user who tried to access the tape.
mu%d: not online. An attempt was made to access the tape
while it was
offline; this message is written on the terminal of the user
who tried to
access the tape.
mu%d: can't change density in mid-tape. An attempt was made
to write on
a tape at a different density than is already recorded on
the tape. This
message is written on the terminal of the user who tried to
switch the
density.
mu%d: hard error bn%d mbsr=%b er=%x ds=%b. A tape error occurred at
block bn; the mt error register and drive status register
are printed in
octal with the bits symbolically decoded. Any error is fatal on non-raw
tape; when possible the driver will have retried the operation which
failed several times before reporting the error.
mu%d: blank tape. An attempt was made to read a blank tape
(a tape without
even end-of-file marks).
mu%d: offline. During an i/o operation the device was set
offline. If a
non-raw tape was used in the access it is closed.
mt(1), intro(4), mscpbus(4)
The mt driver appeared in 4.1BSD.
If a physical error (non-data) occurs, mt may hang ungracefully.
Because 800 BPI tapes are not supported, the numbering of
minor devices
is inconsistent with triple-density tape units. Unit 0 is
drive 0, 1600
BPI.
OpenBSD 3.6 March 27, 1991
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