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- From: Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@sdd.hp.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: WANGTEK, 5525ES SCSI REV1, 6F6: Need info!
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 17:56:49 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
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- hoffmann@morinda.it.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann) wrote:
-
- >Hi, I just bought a second hand WANGTEK, 5525ES SCSI REV1, 6F6 Tape
- >Backup Unit. As so often, I didn't get any documentation. So I was
- >wondering if anyone could tell me about the drive? I found the
- >jumperblock to change the SCSI Address, But I also found 2 more
- >jumpers, one right next to the address jumpers, and one somewhere in
- >the middle of the PCB... What are theese 2 jumpers for?
-
- I have the same drive, and no documentation as well, but those two
- jumpers worked fine where they were so I didn't mess with them.
-
- >I also found that the drives works on a fixed blocksize of 1024 bytes.
- >That's all I could find out about the drive.
-
- Other interesting information: it has a 64K cache onboard. If you set
- your backup software for a similar size cache, you will get optimum
- transfer speed. Or so it has been my experience thus far.
-
-
- >the mt status command comes back with the following:
- >7: unknown tape drive type
-
- Under HDToolBox and SCSIMounter, the first interrogation on mine gets an
- ID of WangTek blah blah etc, the second interrogation always returns
- "unknown drive type." AFAIK, this is normal for this drive.
-
- >When I do a backup under Ados I don't seem to be able to append to a
- >tape. What I mean is that if I backed up a partition on a tape I can't
- >backup another one without overwriting the first. Is something like mt
- >and tar available for AmigaDos?
-
- There is Tar, GNUTar, and BTN (Better Than Nothing) tape driver.
- However, I make extensive use of MRBackup, along with MRTape (comes with)
- to access the drive, and it has worked almost without fault for years.
- You can find MRB on AmiNet in evaluation form (annoying requester from
- time to time but fully functional). I'd suggest giving it a try.
-
- >And last: does anyone still have a bunch of DC6525 Tapes lying around,
- >that they want to get rid of?
-
- I tend to use all of mine :-) However, these tapes are typically still
- available in the larger computer stores.
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