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32.\"     @(#)ut.4	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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34.Dd June 5, 1993
35.Dt UT 4 vax
36.Os BSD 4.2
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm ut
39.Nd
40.Tn UNIBUS TU45
41tri-density tape drive interface
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Cd "controller ut0 at uba0 csr 0172440 vector utintr"
44.Cd "tape tj0 at ut0 drive 0"
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm ut
48interface provides access to a standard tape drive interface as
49describe in
50.Xr mtio 4 .
51Hardware implementing this on the
52.Tn VAX
53is typified by the System
54Industries
55.Tn SI
569700 tape subsystem.  Tapes may be read or written
57at 800, 1600, and 6250
58.Tn BPI .
59.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
60.Bl -diag
61.It tj%d: no write ring.
62An attempt was made to write on the tape drive
63when no write ring was present; this message is written on the terminal of
64the user who tried to access the tape.
65.Pp
66.It tj%d: not online.
67An attempt was made to access the tape while it
68was offline; this message is written on the terminal of the user
69who tried to access the tape.
70.Pp
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.Pp
77.It "ut%d: soft error bn%d cs1=%b er=%b cs2=%b ds=%b."
78The formatter indicated a corrected error at a density other
79than 800bpi.  The data transferred is assumed to be correct.
80.Pp
81.It "ut%d: hard error bn%d cs1=%b er=%b cs2=%b ds=%b."
82A tape error occurred
83at block
84.Pp
85.It bn.
86Any error is
87fatal on non-raw tape; when possible the driver will have retried
88the operation which failed several times before reporting the error.
89.Pp
90.It tj%d: lost interrupt.
91A tape operation did not complete
92within a reasonable time, most likely because the tape was taken
93off-line during rewind or lost vacuum.  The controller should, but does not,
94give an interrupt in these cases.  The device will be made available
95again after this message, but any current open reference to the device
96will return an error as the operation in progress aborts.
97.El
98.Sh SEE ALSO
99.Xr mt 1 ,
100.Xr mtio 4
101.Sh HISTORY
102The
103.Nm
104driver appeared in
105.Bx 4.2 .
106.Sh BUGS
107May hang if a physical error (non-data) occurs.
108