Re: Accessing remote tape drive

I have used host:/dev/rmt/0m syntax with ontape in OnLine versions 5 and 7 many times. It sometimes runs a little slower but it works. Dianne ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Accessing remote tape drive Author: Cosmo Lee <*NO-SPAM*cosmo@echonyc.com> at INTERNET Date: 7/2/97 11:52 PM Is there a trick to accessing a remote tape drive with Ontape? As far as I know, you can't access a remote tape drive using NFS. I don't know how Ontape intends to do this. The only directives in the OnArchive manual are to set TAPEDEV to host:device/path in the onconfig file. But there are no clues as to how Ontape is supposed to actually access the tape drive. My attempts so far have failed, and an Informix engineer had no hints either. I tried mounting the device via NFS, but couldn't open the device which was mounted locally. Any help *much* appreciated. -- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ADDRESS ALTERED TO FOIL SPAMMERS: Remove "*NO-SPAM*" to reply. Cosmo Lee Multi-User Computer Systems Brooklyn, NY email: cosmo@echonyc.com "JUST SAY 'NO' TO SPAM" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *