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Newsgroups: culist.netbsd.amiga
Path: daemon
From: osymh@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Michael L. Hitch)
Subject: Re: Archive Viper 150 not working with 1.0_BETA
To: amiga@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
Organization: Carleton University
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On Aug 2, 7:47am, Rob Healey wrote:
> > > I would hope that this will be fixed before 1.0 is out, otherwise, I think
> > > that we are in for some major problems.....
> >
> > Nothing regarding tapes is going to be fixed by me as I have no tape drive.
> > If you think its important please try and debug it for us. Otherwise
> > it will definetly be broken for release.
> >
...
> From what I've seen the tape driver is BETTER than the old
> amiga driver, not worse.
I think the general tape driver is better, but there were some
drive-specific handling done in the old driver that probably isn't in
the new driver. I had some trouble with an Exabyte 8mm drive because
of some setup that the old driver did which isn't in the new driver. I
modified the new driver to add the 8mm as another 'rouge' and was able
to get the drive working. I had also added some special handling to
the old driver for a DEC TZ50 tape drive. I haven't had much luck getting
that to work with the new driver. [Part of the problem is that the new
driver executes a SCSI command that the old driver didn't, and that command
isn't supported by the DEC drive.]
I think the new driver works fine with my Wangtek 5150ES drive, although
I haven't tried it lately. The stupid A4000 box doesn't have a deep enough
5-1/4" bay, so I couldn't put the drive in the A4000.
Michael
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Michael L. Hitch INTERNET: osymh@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
Office of Systems and Computing Services
Montana State University Bozeman, MT USA