question

Guest wrote on Dec 01, 2005

Hi.

I have installed IRAF on a machine running RedHat Enterprise ES release 4
and all seems well except for tape access at this point. I have an Exabyte
8mm Eliant tape drive installed which is working OK. I have the tapecap
file configured to access the drive as an 8200 or 8505 model. In the
system /dev directory it lists st0, st0a, st0l, st0m and nst0, nst0a, nst0l,
nst0m, as well as tape, tape1, tape2, tape3 which are symbolic links to
nst0, nst0a, etc. I used the st0* and nst0* devices in my tapecap file.
A copy of the tapecap is attached.

Under IRAF, xtapemon senses the drive. However, a warning
message is generated

> allocate mta
Warning: cannot open device nst0

or

> allocate mtb
Warning: cannot open device nst0a

and rewind or rfits produces a similar message and no read occurs.
mta (or mtb) remain allocated and have to be deallocated before
closing IRAF.

Have I made a simple blunder or is there something else to be
changed? I did give universal rw access to st0* and nst0*.

Many thanks.

Don Martins
Univ. of Alaska Anchorage

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