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- From: hoffmann@morinda.it.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Wangtek 5525ES, I need info, please.
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 03:33:11 GMT
- Organization: Northern Territory University
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- [ Article crossposted from comp.periphs.scsi ]
- [ Author was Arthur Hoffmann ]
- [ Posted on 2 Feb 1996 13:11:56 GMT ]
-
- Hi,
- I recently bought a WANGTEK, 5525ES Tape backup unit but it didn't
- come with any documentation.
- My first question is relating to the jumpers.
-
- I found one block of 4 jumpers on the drive, 3 of these set the scsi
- address, but I don't have a clue as to what the 4th jumper does.
- Also somewhere in the middle of the circuit board is another jumper,
- what is that for?
-
- Is it possible to get the documentation for the drive somewhere?
-
- With the drive I also received 5 DC6525 tapes which seem to
- work just fine. Now I got hold of a few DC6250 tapes and I stuck them
- into the drive and they work as well, which is good. But: It seems as
- if the drive works at only half the speed with the smaller capacity
- tapes. Why is this? and can it be changed? Also I read on the tapes
- that they are 1020 feet long, to my surprise the dc6525 tapes have the
- same length. Is there something written on the actual media that
- informs the tape drive as to what capacity the current tapes has?
-
- Now for the weirdest part: I'm actually running NetBSD on my Amiga and
- the tape works pretty well with both types of tapes.
- Under AmigaDOS I have installed a tape handler called dtape: This
- handler kept crashing my machine when I tried to access the DC6525
- tapes for reading and writing. With the DC6250 tapes the handler works
- just perfect. What could cause that. Does the Drives documentation
- mention anything about incompatibilities with the tapes.
-
- I would really appreciate if someone could make the manuals available
- to me either electronically or (copies of) the originals. I will pay
- for all expenses and your trouble. Please email me if you wish to send
- me the manuals.
-
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- --
- Arthur.
-
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- ++++++++I need a SCSI Scanner - TWAIN compliant +++++++
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- Arthur.
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- Arthur Hoffmann hoffmann@it.ntu.edu.au
- ========I need a Quantum LPS240 SCSI Hard disk: Dead or Alive=======
- ++++++++I need a SCSI Scanner - TWAIN compliant +++++++
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