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30.\"     from: @(#)ut.4	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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32.Dd February 17, 2017
33.Dt UT 4 vax
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm ut
37.Nd
38.Tn UNIBUS TU45
39tri-density tape drive interface
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Cd "ut0 at uba0 csr 0172440 vector utintr"
42.Cd "tj0 at ut0 drive 0"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44NOTE: This driver has not been ported from
45.Bx 4.4
46yet.
47.Pp
48The
49.Nm ut
50interface provides access to a standard tape drive interface as
51describe in
52.Xr vax/mtio 4 .
53Hardware implementing this on the
54.Tn VAX
55is typified by the System
56Industries
57.Tn SI
589700 tape subsystem.
59Tapes may be read or written at 800, 1600, and 6250
60.Tn BPI .
61.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
62.Bl -diag
63.It tj%d: no write ring.
64An attempt was made to write on the tape drive
65when no write ring was present; this message is written on the terminal of
66the user who tried to access the tape.
67.It tj%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.It tj%d: can't change density in mid-tape.
72An attempt was made to write
73on a tape at a different density than is already recorded on the tape.
74This message is written on the terminal of the user who tried to switch
75the density.
76.It "ut%d: soft error bn%d cs1=%b er=%b cs2=%b ds=%b."
77The formatter indicated a corrected error at a density other
78than 800bpi.
79The data transferred is assumed to be correct.
80.It "ut%d: hard error bn%d cs1=%b er=%b cs2=%b ds=%b."
81A tape error occurred
82at block
83.It bn.
84Any error is
85fatal on non-raw tape; when possible the driver will have retried
86the operation which failed several times before reporting the error.
87.It tj%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.
91The controller should, but does not, give an interrupt in these cases.
92The device will be made available
93again after this message, but any current open reference to the device
94will return an error as the operation in progress aborts.
95.El
96.Sh SEE ALSO
97.Xr vax/mt 1 ,
98.Xr vax/mtio 4
99.Sh HISTORY
100The
101.Nm
102driver appeared in
103.Bx 4.2 .
104.Sh BUGS
105May hang if a physical error (non-data) occurs.
106