NAME

ts − TS-11 magtape interface

SYNOPSIS

/sys/conf/SYSTEM:
NTSts_drives# TS11
 /etc/dtab:
#NameUnit#AddrVectorBrHandler(s) # Comments
ts?1725202245tsintr # ts11 driver
 major device number(s):
raw: 8
block: 2
minor device encoding:
bits 0003 specify TS drive
bit  0004 specifies no-rewind operation
bit  0010 ignored

DESCRIPTION

The ts-11 combination provides a standard tape drive interface as described in mtio(4). The ts-11 operates only at 1600 bpi, and only one transport is possible per controller.

FILES

/dev/MAKEDEVscript to create special files
/dev/MAKEDEV.localscript to localize special files

SEE ALSO

mt(1), tar(1), tp(1), mtio(4), ht(4), tm(4), dtab(5), autoconfig(8)

DIAGNOSTICS

ts%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. 

ts%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. 

ts%d: hard error bn%d xs0=%b xs1=%b xs2=%b xs3=%b.  A hard error occurred on the tape at block bn; status registers 0-3 are printed in octal and symbolically decoded as bits. 

ts%d: addr mod 4 != 0.  The address of a TS-11 command packet was not on an even longword boundary. 

BUGS

If any non-data error is encountered on non-raw tape, it refuses to do anything more until closed. 

The device lives at the same address as a tm-11 tm(4).

2nd Berkeley Distribution  —  January 28, 1988