uVAX II alive

From: Bruce Lane <kyrrin_at_my-dejanews.com>
Date: Sun Sep 6 21:18:29 1998

John Lawson wrote:

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        Congrats on getting it to boot!

> The cartridge drive is not happy.. it will load the tape, but the
> red load light stays on, and VMS reports "device not found", and
> SHOW DEV shows it as unmounted.

        Ah. I've seen that before in TK50's. What you need to do is pull it
out, remove the cover and head guard, and clean the head. Use the same
procedures you would for wet-cleaning of professional audio tape decks.

> I would *really* like to discover how to mount/access the Cipher
> drive.. I have VMS 4.3 manuals, but I haven't found the right info

        Its device name should be MUB0. You might load a scratch tape and then
try the following command.

        mount /foreign MUB0:

        Include the colon. If it works, you should see the thing move its reels
momentarily and then stop.

        Best of luck!
Received on Sun Sep 06 1998 - 21:18:29 BST