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mtio(4)

nbuf(4)

MAKEDEV(8)

uerf(8)

mu(4)

NAME

mu − TM78/TU78 MASSBUS magtape interface

SYNTAX

master mt0 at mba? drive ? 
tape mu0 at mt0 slave 0

DESCRIPTION

Prior to Version 2.0, this device was referenced by mt(4). 

The TM78/TU78 combination provides a standard tape drive interface as described in mtio(4).  Only 1600 and 6250 bpi are supported; the TU78 runs at 125 ips and autoloads tapes. 

RESTRICTIONS

Only the raw tape is supported. 

DIAGNOSTICS

mu%d: no write ring. 
An attempt was made to write on the tape drive when no write ring was present.

mu%d: not online. 
An attempt was made to access the tape while it was offline.

mu%d: hard error bn%d. 
A tape error occurred at block bn.  When possible the driver will have retried the operation which failed several times before reporting the error.  Additional register information may be gathered from the system error log file, /usr/adm/syserr/syserr.<hostname>. 

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.

FILES

/dev/rmt??? 
/dev/nrmt???

SEE ALSO

mtio(4), nbuf(4), MAKEDEV(8), uerf(8)

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