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UU(4)                 NetBSD/vax Kernel Interfaces Manual                UU(4)


NAME

     uu -- TU-58/DECtape II UNIBUS cassette interface


SYNOPSIS

     options UUDMA
     uu0 at uba0 csr 0176500 vector uurintr uuxintr


DESCRIPTION

     NOTE: This driver has not been ported from 4.4BSD yet.

     The uu device provides access to dual DEC TU-58 tape cartridge drives
     connected to the UNIBUS via a DL-11W interface module.

     The interface supports only block I/O to the TU-58 cassettes (see
     physio(4)).  The drives are normally manipulated with the arff(8) program
     using the ``m'' and ``f'' options.

     The driver provides for an optional write and verify (read after write)
     mode that is activated by specifying the ``a'' device.

     The TU-58 is treated as a single device by the system even though it has
     two separate drives, `uu0' and `uu1'.  If there is more than one TU-58
     unit on a system, the extra drives are named `uu2', `uu3' etc.


NOTES

     Assembly language code to assist the driver in handling the receipt of
     data (using a pseudo-DMA approach) should be included when using this
     driver; specify `options UUDMA' in the configuration file.


FILES

     /dev/uu?
     /dev/uu?a


DIAGNOSTICS

     uu%d: no bp, active %d.  A transmission complete interrupt was received
     with no outstanding I/O request.  This indicates a hardware problem.

     uu%d protocol error, state=%s, op=%x, cnt=%d, block=%d.  The driver
     entered an illegal state.  The information printed indicates the illegal
     state, the operation currently being executed, the I/O count, and the
     block number on the cassette.

     uu%d: break received, transfer restarted.  The TU-58 was sending a con-
     tinuous break signal and had to be reset.  This may indicate a hardware
     problem, but the driver will attempt to recover from the error.

     uu%d receive state error, state=%s, byte=%x.  The driver entered an ille-
     gal state in the receiver finite state machine.  The state is shown along
     with the control byte of the received packet.

     uu%d: read stalled.  A timer watching the controller detected no inter-
     rupt for an extended period while an operation was outstanding.  This
     usually indicates that one or more receiver interrupts were lost and the
     transfer is restarted.

     uu%d: hard error bn%d, pk_mod %o.  The device returned a status code
     indicating a hard error.  The actual error code is shown in octal.  No
     retries are attempted by the driver.


ERRORS

     The following errors may be returned:

     [ENXIO]  Nonexistent drive (on open); offset is too large or bad (unde-
              fined) ioctl(2) code.

     [EIO]    Open failed, the device could not be reset.

     [EBUSY]  Drive in use.


SEE ALSO

     vax/tu(4), arff(8)


HISTORY

     The uu driver appeared in 4.2BSD.

NetBSD 10.99                   February 17, 2017                  NetBSD 10.99