Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!turnkey!jackv From: jackv@turnkey.gryphon.COM (Jack F. Vogel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: SCSI tape drives. Message-ID: <6377@turnkey.gryphon.COM> Date: 28 Sep 89 15:05:26 GMT References: <9680@chinet.chi.il.us> Reply-To: jackv@turnkey.gryphon.COM Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Westchester, CA Lines: 27 In article <9680@chinet.chi.il.us> pdg@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Guthrie) writes: > >Has anyone actually got SCSI tape drives to work on ISC 2.0.2? > >..... Opening the scsi >tape devices (ct or nrct) fail with errorno -1 (PERMISSION), ^^^^^^^^^^^ >even though the actual device permissions are OK, and I was >root. If this is not a typo and you actually got a -1 and not a 1 then the error is not EPERM (permission denied), rather it looks like a problem in the device driver code. The u.u_error structure member is not being set to anything intelligible, it is simply all ones which means it is probably uninitialized. Someone at ISC who has the driver code should take a look at the code and figure out what's wrong. Have you tried to call their support? Good luck, Disclaimer: IMHO only. -- Jack F. Vogel jackv@seas.ucla.edu AIX Technical Support - or - Locus Computing Corp. jackv@ifs.umich.edu