The MVII I have got in March is now fully restored and placed in the second floor.
Today I have tested the TSV05 Tape Drive under the installed VMS 5.5-1.
1. step: is to load an tape with trash data or an empty one. I have choosen am empty tape, have loaded it physically in the Tape Drive and have pressed the online button.
2. step: was to check that the drive is recognized and the driver is available
$ show devices/full ........ Magtape ZOID01$MSA0:, device type TSV05, is online, file-oriented device, error logging is enabled. Error count 0 Operations completed 0 Owner process "" Owner UIC [0,0] Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWED,O:RWED,G:RWED,W:RWED Reference count 0 Default buffer size 2048 Density 1600 Format Normal-11 Volume status: no-unload on dismount, beginning-of-tape, odd parity. ... ...
3. Step: was to initialite the empty tape.
$ init MSA0: _Label: test $
4. Step: was to mount the Tape.
Here we need to differenciate two possibilities.
a.) you dont know the label of the tape
$ mount/for ms0: %MOUNT-I-MOUNTED, TEST mounted on _ZOID01$MSA0: $
b.) you know the label of the tape
$ mount ms0: _Label: test _Log name: %MOUNT-I-MOUNTED, TEST mounted on _ZOID01$MSA0: $
Dismount it via:
$ dismount/nounload ms0:
5. Step: is to listen the content of the Tape
The tape is now monted as _ZOID01$MSA0: so we type in the following to get the files and dirctories listed.
$ dir _ZOID01$MSA0: %DIRECT-W-NOFILES, no files found $
We see that the tape is empty, which makes sense as we have it initialized in step 2.
6. Step: Now we copy over some files
$ copy/log CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM _ZOID01$MSA0:CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM %COPY-S-COPIED, SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM;1 copied to _ZOID01$MSA0:[ ]CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM;0 (4101 records) $
and check the contents of the tape again
$ dir _ZOID01$MSA0: Directory _ZOID01$MSA0:[] CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM;1 CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM;1 Total of 2 files. $
So we see the file is now on ms0:
So now see whats on the old tapes I have got with the VAX
1. Step is to check the output of show dev
Magtape ZOID01$MSA0:, device type TSV05, is online, file-oriented device, error logging is enabled. Error count 0 Operations completed 211 Owner process "" Owner UIC [0,0] Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWED,O:RWED,G:RWED,W:RWED Reference count 0 Default buffer size 2048 Density 1600 Format Normal-11 Volume status: no-unload on dismount, odd parity.
2. Step mount the tape
$ mount/for ms0: %MOUNT-I-MOUNTED, TRANS mounted on _ZOID01$MSA0: $ 3. display contents of the tape $ dir _ZOID01$MSA0: %DIRECT-E-OPENIN, error opening _ZOID01$MSA0:[SYSMGR]*.*;* as input -SYSTEM-F-NOTFILEDEV, device is not file structured $ So it looks like the content is block based? Good Question, which I can't answer by now. After mounting the tape the show dev output has changed to:
Magtape ZOID01$MSA0:, device type TSV05, is online, allocated, deallocate on dismount, mounted foreign, record-oriented device, file-oriented device, error logging is enabled. Error count 0 Operations completed 223 Owner process "SYSTEM" Owner UIC [SYSTEST,SYSTMGR] Owner process ID 00000090 Dev Prot S:RWED,O:RWED,G:,W: Reference count 2 Default buffer size 512 Volume label "TRANS " Relative volume no. 0 Record size 0 Transaction count 1 Mount status Process Mount count 1 ACP process name "" Density 1600 Format Normal-11 Volume status: beginning-of-tape, odd parity.