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@(#)mt.4 4.1 (Berkeley) 05/15/85

C 4 mt - TM-78/TU-78 MASSBUS magtape interface formatter mt0 at mba? drive ?

tape mu0 at mt0 slave 0

The tm-78/transport combination provides a standard tape drive interface as described in mtop (4). The TU78 provides both 1600 and 6250 bpi, runs at 125 ips, and autoloads tapes. mt(1), tar(1), tp(1), mtop(4), ht(4), tm(4), ts(4) 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 switch 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=%o ds=%b. A tape error occurred at block bn; the mt error register and drive status register are printed in octal with the drive status 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 or space a blank tape.

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

The system should remember which controlling terminal has the tape drive open and write error messages to that terminal rather than on the console.