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I am posting this message for one of the members of my NeXT Users Group.   
You may reply directly to him at the addresses listed in his message or to  
me.  Thanks for any help you can offer.
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	    Marianne Guntow, Technical Support Coordinator
Campus Computer Stores, University of Chicago Computing Organizations
          University of Chicago NeXT Users Group Coordinator


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I am trying to hook up an "Alliance Peripheral Systems ARCHIVE Python
DAT" tape drive to a monochrome NeXTStation.  The SCSI ID number of the 
drive is set to 2.  The machine seems to recognize the drive because
after rebooting, the NMI mini-monitor gives the following msg :

ARCHIVE Python 25501-XXX as st0 at sc0 target 2 lun 0

According to the NeXT User's Reference (p. 298) the above message should 
mean that the device is mounted on /dev/st0a, but there are no st* devices
in the /dev directory.  This is the smallest problem.  So far I have been
unable to use the drive with 'tar' (or anything else).  'mount' does not 
recognize the drive :

$ /usr/etc/mount
/dev/sd0a on / type 4.3 (rw,noquota,noauto)
tmnxt1:(autonfsmount[115]) on /Net type nfs (ro,intr,port=714)
/dev/fd0a on /junk type 4.3 (rw,noquota)

(fd0a is the floppy drive).  The manufacturer (Alliance Peripheral  
Systems)
claims that I do not need to mount the drive explicitly, just connect it  
and
reboot the computer. Any attempt to use tar with the default device  
/dev/rxt0
gives the expected error message :

tar: /dev/rxt0: No such device or address

and rxt[1-9] give similar results.

Has anybody out there had similar problems?  I would appreciate any help 
with this.  Please Email advice to any one of the addresses below (the 
first address accepts NeXT mail): 

boyan@tmnxt1.iit.edu
boyaboy@karl.iit.edu
boyaboy@iitvax 		(Bitnet)


Thanks,

Boyan
Indentured Servant (i.e. graduate student)
Department of Physics
Illinois Insitute of Technology
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