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- From: Volkmar.Grote@Stollmann.DE (Volkmar Grote)
- Subject: Wangtek QIC info needed
- Message-ID: <0n2rc4b@Stollmann.DE>
- Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 21:59:48 GMT
- Organization: Stollmann GmbH, D-2000 Hamburg 50, Germany
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- Summary: Need decription of Wangtek QIC interface
- Keywords: wangtek qic tape msdos
- Originator: vg@sai1
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- I recently aquired a Wangtek qic streamer (5125EN) together with
- a controller card from Wangtek (PC36, doing QIC-02, I think).
- As I don't like SYTOS, I want to write a device driver for
- MSDOS, or, alternatively, a set of library routines; in the end, I
- want to use tar or cpio, and be able to read and write tapes as I
- do under UNIX (well, kind of).
- I got the driver from BSDI's 386BSD, and learned a lot about the io-interface,
- but after reading the first block, everything stops and waits for something
- to happen (I have an interrupt service routine and a time out routine).
- Somehow, I didn't put the protocol right.
- What I would like to have, is a description of the commands and statuses
- (I have some) and a short description of the protocol (when do I start the DMA,
- when does the controller issue an interrupt, what do I do then ...).
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- Please reply by email, because I'll work at our customer's site for some
- time. I will happily provide you with the driver / lib, if I get it to work.
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- Thanks a lot
- Volkmar (Volkmar.Grote@Stollmann.DE)
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- P.S.: FTP is of little help, we have no internet access :-(
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