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mtio(4)

nbuf(4)

SCSI(4)

MAKEDEV(8)

uerf(8)

tapex(8)

tz(4)

Name

tz − SCSI magnetic tape interface

Syntax

VAX NCR 5380:
adapteruba0at nexus? 
controllerscsi0at uba0csr 0x200c0080  vector szintr
tapetz0at scsi0drive 0

VAX DEC SII:
adapteribus0at nexus? 
controllersii0at ibus?vector sii_intr
tapetz0at sii0drive 0

RISC DEC SII:
adapteribus0at nexus? 
controllersii0at ibus?vector sii_intr
tapetz0at sii0drive 0

RISC NCR ASC:
adapteribus0at nexus? 
controllerasc0at ibus?vector ascintr
tapetz0at asc0drive 0

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, TLZ04, TSZ05

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), tapex(8)
Guide to the Error Logger System

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