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35.Dd March 27, 1991
36.Dt TM 4 vax
37.Os BSD 4
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm tm
40.Nd
41.Tn TM-11 Ns / Tn TE-10
42magtape device interface
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Sy "controller tm0 at uba? csr 0172520 vector tmintr"
45.Sy "tape te0 at tm0 drive 0"
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Tn TM-11 Ns / Tn TE-10
49combination provides a standard tape drive
50interface as described in
51.Xr mtio 4 .
52Hardware implementing this on the
53.Tn VAX
54is typified by the Emulex
55.Tn TC-11
56controller operating with a Kennedy model 9300 tape transport,
57providing 800 and 1600
58.Tn BPI operation at 125
59.Tn IPS .
60.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
61.Bl -diag
62.It te%d: no write ring.
63An attempt was made to write on the tape drive
64when no write ring was present; this message is written on the terminal of
65the user who tried to access the tape.
66.Pp
67.It te%d: not online.
68An attempt was made to access the tape while it
69was offline; this message is written on the terminal of the user
70who tried to access the tape.
71.Pp
72.It te%d: can't change density in mid-tape.
73An attempt was made to write
74on a tape at a different density than is already recorded on the tape.
75This message is written on the terminal of the user who tried to switch
76the density.
77.Pp
78.It te%d: hard error bn%d er=%b.
79A tape error occurred
80at block
81.Em bn ;
82the tm error register is
83printed in octal with the bits symbolically decoded.  Any error is
84fatal on non-raw tape; when possible the driver will have retried
85the operation which failed several times before reporting the error.
86.Pp
87.It te%d: lost interrupt.
88A tape operation did not complete
89within a reasonable time, most likely because the tape was taken
90off-line during rewind or lost vacuum.  The controller should, but does not,
91give an interrupt in these cases.  The device will be made available
92again after this message, but any current open reference to the device
93will return an error as the operation in progress aborts.
94.El
95.Sh SEE ALSO
96.Xr mt 1 ,
97.Xr tar 1 ,
98.Xr tp 1 ,
99.Xr mt 4 ,
100.Xr mtio 4 ,
101.Xr ht 4 ,
102.Xr ts 4 ,
103.Xr ut 4
104.Sh HISTORY
105A
106.Nm
107driver appeared in
108.At v6 .
109.Sh BUGS
110May hang if a physical (non-data) error occurs.
111