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tz(4)

Name

tz − SCSI magnetic tape interface

Syntax

For SCSI systems:
tz5 at scsi0 slave 5 (TZK50)
tz2 at sii0 slave 2 (TZK50)
tz5 at asc0 slave 5 (TZK50)

Description

The SCSI tape driver provides a standard tape drive interface as described in mtio(.). This is a driver for any DIGITAL SCSI tape device. This driver also supports n-buffered reads and writes to the raw tape interface (used with streaming tape drives). See nbuf() for further details.

Tape Support

TZ30, TZK50

Diagnostics

All diagnostic messages are sent to the error logger subsystem. 

Files

/dev/rmt??? 
/dev/nrmt???

See Also

mtio(4), nbuf(4), SCSI(4), MAKEDEV(8), uerf(8)
ULTRIX Guide to the Error Logger System

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