Ciprico Tapemaster 3000 1/2-inch Tape Controller [Ciprico, Inc.]

Interface Devices and Controllers

Ciprico Tapemaster 3000 1/2-inch Tape Controller

Ciprico, Inc.

Tapemaster 3 Tape Controller's dual-FIFO architecture and flexiblesoftware interface allow easy integration of any streaming or start/stopPertec half-inch tape drive into workstations. A 4-KB data FIFO decouplestape transfers from the system, while the board's 32-byte short burstFIFO provides extremely efficient VMEbus transfers. Ring buffer commandsand scatter/gather system DMA transfers facilitate streaming operationson any of up to eight formatted drives. Flexibility in the choice of tapedrive is accomplished with pass-through tape commands and programmabletape drive parameters. Other key Tapemaster 3 controller featuresinclude:

2-MB-per-second tape interface.
Ability to read and write any size tape record.
Ability to read unknown record lengths.
Hardware support for byte order swapping of tape data.
Software-controlled retry options.

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Product Special Handling: Device driver from Ciprico VME-based workstation, dual-width to triple-width VME adapter board
Operating Systems: Solaris Sparc 1.0

Ciprico, Inc.
2800 Campus Dr Suite 60
Plymouth, MN 55441
USA
Phone: (612) 551-4000
(800) 727-4669
Fax: (612) 551-4002