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30.\"     from: @(#)ut.4	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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32.Dd June 5, 1993
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 mtio 4 .
53Hardware implementing this on the
54.Tn VAX
55is typified by the System
56Industries
57.Tn SI
589700 tape subsystem.  Tapes may be read or written
59at 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.Pp
68.It tj%d: not online.
69An attempt was made to access the tape while it
70was offline; this message is written on the terminal of the user
71who tried to access the tape.
72.Pp
73.It tj%d: can't change density in mid-tape.
74An attempt was made to write
75on a tape at a different density than is already recorded on the tape.
76This message is written on the terminal of the user who tried to switch
77the density.
78.Pp
79.It "ut%d: soft error bn%d cs1=%b er=%b cs2=%b ds=%b."
80The formatter indicated a corrected error at a density other
81than 800bpi.  The data transferred is assumed to be correct.
82.Pp
83.It "ut%d: hard error bn%d cs1=%b er=%b cs2=%b ds=%b."
84A tape error occurred
85at block
86.Pp
87.It bn.
88Any error is
89fatal on non-raw tape; when possible the driver will have retried
90the operation which failed several times before reporting the error.
91.Pp
92.It tj%d: lost interrupt.
93A tape operation did not complete
94within a reasonable time, most likely because the tape was taken
95off-line during rewind or lost vacuum.  The controller should, but does not,
96give an interrupt in these cases.  The device will be made available
97again after this message, but any current open reference to the device
98will return an error as the operation in progress aborts.
99.El
100.Sh SEE ALSO
101.Xr mt 1 ,
102.Xr mtio 4
103.Sh HISTORY
104The
105.Nm
106driver appeared in
107.Bx 4.2 .
108.Sh BUGS
109May hang if a physical error (non-data) occurs.
110