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- From: stuartr@VNET.IBM.COM
- Message-ID: <19960206.010146.710@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 96 09:01:56 UTC
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Oktagon SCSI Controller
-
- >>
- >>>Has the 2008 been tested with an Archive 150 by anybody?
- >>
- >>Well I have just this setup and I use MRBackup flawlessy with the
- >>Viper. I did have some problems with the mountlist for the MRTape
- >>using the Viper, but after I changed it to use the correct buffer
- >
- >Where do you change this parameter?
- Well I am at work right now, so I cannot check what I did exactly but
- I seem to remember that in the mountlist for MRTAPE (remember I only
- use MRBACKUP) that I changed the buffer value to either 32 or 64 KB,
- and that was all.
- >
- >>size it has been just fine. The problems I used to have were Phase
- >>errors on the SCSI bus which then GURUd the Amiga.
- >
- >How do you know if you have phase errors?
- Well you get an Oktagon ALERT message up, you cannot miss it as it
- takes over the whole screen just like an Amiga Alert, and you get two
- options RETRY or CONTINUE and if you get this (and dont have Enforcer
- running) then you crash!
- >
- >The problems I have are that I get unrecoverable tape errors and bad
- >blocks etc. When reading the tape, it usually reads between 4 and 13
- >megabytes, and then the SCSI buss locks up. Thinking the tapes are bad,
- >I try them on my PC and they work fine. I am using GNUtar and Quarterback
- >for the backup software on my Amiga.
- >
- >Since I made a 6.10 ROM for the Oktagon, Quarterback won't run, but GNUtar
- >and, Maxtor HD and the CDROM drive, work as before.
- >
- Well I have had no such problems with tape errors, although all my tapes
- have been cleaned and erased (at work).
-
- Stuart
-