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- From: robsch@robkaos.GUN.de (Robert Schien)
- Subject: Re: Anyone using a wengtek tape drive with 386BSD?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.230602.1987@robkaos.GUN.de>
- Keywords: wengtek 386 bsd 386bsd
- Organization: Private System, Essen, Germany
- References: <1992Aug16.020812.12653@tfs.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:06:02 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <1992Aug16.020812.12653@tfs.com> paigen@tfs.com (David Paigen) writes:
- >I have been having trouble getting dist.fs to recognize my tape
- >drive. SCO Unix sees it, I managed to mess with the jumpers on
- >the controller board (also wangtek) to fix the memory io to 0x330.
- >
- >However, 386BSD says nothing about it during boot.
- >
- >If anyone has one out there, would you please check to see how the
- >jumpers and switches are set on your controller board?
- >
- >(This is not a SCSI tape, it uses a QIC-36 interface board)
- >
- >----------------------->"Lay on, McDuff, 14th c. ideals in a 21st c. world
- >David Paigen and damn'd be he N: PLO Bush IRA CIA KKK
- >TRW Financial Systems who first cries, S: terrorism pipe bomb kill
- >paigen@tfs.com 'hold, enough!'" A: assasination maim
-
- I am using a 5099E Wangtek tape drive with PC-36 controller (should be
- the same as QIC-36). The port address is 0x300, IRQ 5, DMA channel 1.
- This works, however it is difficult to get the tape "stream".
-
- Robert
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- Robert Schien robsch@robkaos.GUN.de
- "To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer"
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