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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!dg-rtp!ponds.uucp!rivers
- From: rivers@ponds.uucp (Thomas David Rivers)
- Subject: Wangtek 5099/5150ES questions.
- Summary: How to read 5099 on a 5150ES, what are 5099 settings?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.012556.10779@ponds.uucp>
- Keywords: WANGTEK, 5099, 5150ES, SCSI tape, tape, QIC-120, QIC-60
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 01:25:56 GMT
- Lines: 51
-
-
- While we're talking tape drives here, I have two questions to pose
- to the net-at-large.
-
- 1) I have replaced my Wangtek 5099-EN 24 (QIC-60 with it's own controller)
- with a Wangtek 5150ES, hung off of my SCSI controller. Although
- it seems to have no problems reading/writting new tapes (and it
- streams *very* well) it doesn't seem to be able to read tapes written
- with the 5099. It reads *some* of the tape, never very much...
- Is there some special magic to getting this to work?
-
-
- 2) I had to permute the settings on the 5099 controller making guesses
- until I hit on 0x300 as the address. You guessed it, I bought this
- second hand a *long* time ago, and go *no* documentation with it.
- I would appreciate if someone could send me the switch settings, etc...
- as I would like to have this tape drive in another box (to read the
- old tapes), but the 0x300 address conflicts with my NE2000 card.
- The controller looks like:
-
- +------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | ASSY 30006-002 EV-835 REV. C |
- | |
- | |
- | ==----------
- | ==----------
- | ==-----------
- | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ==---Ribbon---
- | On +--------------------+ ==----Cable---
- | |S S S S S S S S S S | ==-------------
- | Off +--------------------+ ==-------------
- | ==-------------
- | IRQ O41 DRQ DACK |
- | 2345 67 123 123 |
- +--------------------------------+ +------------+
- ||||||||||||||||||||||
- +--------------------+
-
- Where the large block in the center (labelled "On"/"Off") is a set of
- 10 switches. The numbers items labeled IRQ (obviously Interrupte Requst #),
- 041, DRQ and DACK are jumpers. That is, each of the digits represents a
- single jumper, in a contiguous row - it's just hard to draw that...
-
- The board is made by Wangtek and is labelled "ASSY 30006-002 - REV. C".
-
- If anyone has any info about the switch settings, I'd really appreciate
- it.
-
- - Thanks -
- - Dave Rivers -
-
-