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35.Dd March 27, 1991
36.Dt UT 4 vax
37.Os BSD 4.2
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm ut
40.Nd
41.Tn UNIBUS TU45
42tri-density tape drive interface
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Cd "controller ut0 at uba0 csr 0172440 vector utintr"
45.Cd "tape tj0 at ut0 drive 0"
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm ut
49interface provides access to a standard tape drive interface as
50describe in
51.Xr mtio 4 .
52Hardware implementing this on the
53.Tn VAX
54is typified by the System
55Industries
56.Tn SI
579700 tape subsystem.  Tapes may be read or written
58at 800, 1600, and 6250
59.Tn BPI .
60.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
61.Bl -diag
62.It tj%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 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.Pp
72.It tj%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 "ut%d: soft error bn%d cs1=%b er=%b cs2=%b ds=%b."
79The formatter indicated a corrected error at a density other
80than 800bpi.  The data transferred is assumed to be correct.
81.Pp
82.It "ut%d: hard error bn%d cs1=%b er=%b cs2=%b ds=%b."
83A tape error occurred
84at block
85.Pp
86.It bn.
87Any error is
88fatal on non-raw tape; when possible the driver will have retried
89the operation which failed several times before reporting the error.
90.Pp
91.It tj%d: lost interrupt.
92A tape operation did not complete
93within a reasonable time, most likely because the tape was taken
94off-line during rewind or lost vacuum.  The controller should, but does not,
95give an interrupt in these cases.  The device will be made available
96again after this message, but any current open reference to the device
97will return an error as the operation in progress aborts.
98.El
99.Sh SEE ALSO
100.Xr mt 1 ,
101.Xr mtio 4
102.Sh HISTORY
103The
104.Nm
105driver appeared in
106.Bx 4.2 .
107.Sh BUGS
108May hang if a physical error (non-data) occurs.
109