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In article <1992Oct26.175847.19255@news.csuohio.edu> tgr@trans.csuohio.edu  
(Wayne Hogue) writes:
|> I have a NeXTstation Turbo and need help getting this drive to work.
|> 
|> 1.  What drive number do I need to set the tape drive to?
|> 2.  Is there a device I need set up?  Do I need to run mknod? and how?
|> 3.  How do I access the drive from Unix?
|> 4.  What software is out there to access the drive from NeXTstep?
|> 
|> Thanks and any info will be very helpful!
I would suggest _not_ attaching this drive to your NeXT. The Archive DATs
can cause your NeXT to panic (crash,stop suddenly,cease to process.) A bug
report has been filed, and for those monitoring the $225 debacle it was done
through my dealer, and as yet there is no word from NeXT on a fix etc...

The drive will work for small amounts of data, say 200 to 300 megs. But if you
push too far, your system crashes.

The above doesn't apply if you're using it under 2.1 (which implies you are
using non-turbo hardware.) The behaviour exists on 2.2, 2.2A 3.0pr2 and 3.0pr3
(otherwise known as the "release" version of 3.0.)

Anyway, I use SCSI ID 6. It shows up as /dev/nrst0 and /dev/rst0 (assuming you
have no other SCSI tape drives) and you can use tar and dump to put data
on the tape (see man pages for more details.) For NeXTSTEP there are things
like EnTAR available.

Scotty