From: David Fox (fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu)
Date: 06/22/93 

From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Wangtek 5150 SCSI Tape -- Bad File Number?
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 16:07:52 GMT

I wrote:

   I have SCSI tape drive that says its a Wangtek 5150, and after
   building a kernal with SCSI tape support I find that I get a
   "Bad File Number" (EBADF) error when I try to tar from it.
   It is an external SCSI-1 device that used to be hooked to a
   Sun-3, in an enclosure with an HP disk drive that works fine.
   I've also got an internal Seagate drive in my box. All are
   at separate SCSI addresses and should be terminated properly.
   Does anyone know what the problem is? Could it be termination?
   I've been meaning to get to it myself, but I have work to do
   for SIGGRAPH...

Well, It is working now, I don't know why. I left a few things
out of my previous post: I did have the devices rst0 and nrst0
in /dev. Perhaps the problem was as David Kraus suggested that
I didn't reboot, though I'd swear I saw it recognize st0...

Thanks all,

-david