29 Dec
2021
29 Dec
'21
1:34 a.m.
On Dec 28, 2021, at 5:11 PM, Thomas DeBellis
<tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote:
dir mta0: would only work for either a Tops-20 or ANSI labeled tape with volume
recognition on. You're not doing that by assigning the tape drive directly.
But they're probably not labeled; I don't recall that DEC shipped this way.
If you let me know what tapes you're looking at, I can have a look and give you some
pointers or tips.
BB-H240B-BM.tap.gz
<http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp10/magtape/dec_distribs/TOPS-20/BB-H240B-BM.tap.gz>
is one, BB-H241B-BM.tap.gz
<http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp10/magtape/dec_distribs/TOPS-20/BB-H241B-BM.tap.gz>
the other. I'm not sure which is right. The description file (labels_combined.txt
<http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp10/magtape/dec_distribs/labels_combined.txt>)
has them listed as:
BB-H240B-BM DECNET-20 V2 DIST TAPE 1980 _tops-20
BB-H241B-BM DECNET-20 2020 V2 DISTRIBUTION 1980 _tops-20
paul