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From: Donn Cave <donn@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Archive Viper 150 not working with 1.0_BETA
To: amiga@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
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>From Michael Hitch:
| 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 'rogue' and was able
| to get the drive working.
Michael was kind enough to forward these changes to me, a couple of weeks
ago, and as far as I'm concerned they're an unqualified improvement for the
Exabyte EXB8200, raising it from barely usable to fairly satisfactory.
I personally would add a couple of lines to suppress LOAD commands, but
they're more of a nuisance than a serious problem.
I was the one who said tape support had taken a dive. Stephen wasn't the
first person to report problems with an Archive drive, and maybe it's the
only other model with problems - in the other complaints about tape drives,
I can't recall mention of any other model. It's a pretty common model,
though. Maybe we should pull it from the new install doc, which would
leave only the Cipher.
Donn Cave, donn@cac.washington.edu