17 Jan
2003
17 Jan
'03
12:24 a.m.
David Evans wrote:
Howdy.
I'd like to confirm that somebody has successfully made a TK50 boot
tape
for 2.11BSD using a TK50Z attached to some other Unix
box.
Yes. Did it to a TK50Z & TZ30 many times. Slow, but works ...
In my case it will
likely have to be Linux, though IRIX might be doable. It *should*
work, after
all, but, well, you know. :)
What version is your "linux" ? There were problems in earlier version
(redhat before 7.x ?) exactly with the block command on tapes, and
that's what bites you :(
Just make sure your tape drive is clean, check if you get any errors
during writing the tape.
And don't use any scripts, just compile the maketape.c, it worked for me
many times.
cheers