Installing an Irwin mini-cartridge tape drive

Mini-tape drives use the floppy disk drive controller or are connected to the Irwin 4100 controller. Make certain your drive and controller jumpers are set correctly; refer to your hardware documentation for more information.

Irwin drives differ significantly from standard QIC tape drives in that they are not configurable and do not require you to enter any hardware parameters while installing them.

1. Specify that you want the drive to be unit 1. The appropriate device files are now created.

2. The installation script prompts you to change the default bootstring if you want to alter the configuration settings used for the tape device at boot time. See the boot(HW) manual page.

3. You can now relink the kernel and reboot to use the tape drive. You can defer relinking if you have other devices to configure.

4. You must create the Irwin configuration file /etc/default/mcconfig if you want to specify debugging, hardware-specific options, and other features. See the mcconfig(F) manual page.