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>
>Hi,
>I have a couple of questions that I need help with.
>
>1.) I have an IEM tape changer scsi tape drive connected to our 987sx via
>    a separate scsi card.  This tape was connected to an interface box that
>    converted hpib to scsi.  This interface box handle all the tape requests
>    such as "change the tape", etc.  When I connected it to the scsi
>    interface directly I had to use devctrl.mpexl.telesup utility to change
>    the ldev, for the tape drive, to enable eject the tape when anew tape is
>    required.  The small amount of documentation that IEM gave me, said that
>    this is only needed to be done once.  This is not true.  Everytime that
>    the system is shutdown and then re-started, I have to re-run the
>    above mentioned utility.  Has anyone had experinence with this or am
>    I missing a step after running the devctrl utility such as going into
>    sysgen and saving the configuration.
>

You might be able to execute a command file to run the devctrl command upon
startup. Check your "System Startup and Shutdown" manual for details on how
this can be accomplished. We had to do the same thing to turn off hardware
compression on some DAT drives every time we rebooted.

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Mark Landin
T. D. Williamson, Inc.
UNIX Sys. Admin