TK50 questions

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From: William Thomas Daugustine
Date: Sat, 26 May 1990 13:35

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I was 'playing' around with the TK50 drive on our VAX 6220 the other day,
trying to initalize a tape to make copies of stuff. I started to get
errors, but dont quite understand what its telling me.

First, the TK50 is MUB6:, I used ASSIGN MUB6: CART at the DCA prompt,
and tried INIT MUB6: CART: (I like to use the same log names as the
volume, so I dont forget).

VMS came back with an error:

%INIT-F-VOLINV, volume is not software enabled

Do I need to MOUNT the drive first before INIT? I dont think I had to do
that on the TU81+, but of course, I could be wrong.

I know the TK50 works, we booted from it a couple of times, and some
of the VMS upgrades came on this tape format.

Can anyone help me? Thank you

Billy D'Augustine
Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.com

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From: Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.com (William Thomas Daugustine)
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Subject: TK50 questions
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Date: 26 May 90 13:35:07 GMT
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