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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!chinacat!chip
- From: chip@chinacat.unicom.com (Chip Rosenthal)
- Subject: Re: Need tape drive driver.
- Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Austin, TX
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 01:45:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.014512.3164@chinacat.unicom.com>
- Keywords: tape drive
- References: <1992Aug23.142121.2495@nic.csu.net>
- Lines: 25
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- In article <1992Aug23.142121.2495@nic.csu.net>
- obrien@futon.SFSU.EDU (Jonathan O'Brien) writes:
- >This is the information I do have. The tape drive and software are from
- >a company called Bell Technologies out of Fremont California.
-
- Bell Tech is belly up. Intel bought them, and then later cast off
- their UNIX business.
-
- But fear not. The Bell Tech tape controller is a standard Wangtek
- PC-36 controller with bunged up ROMs. Or it might be bunged up PALs,
- I forget. Anyway, the only reason they hacked on the card was to
- prevent people from using their drivers with somebody else's tape
- controller.
-
- The SCO tape drivers introduced at 2.3.0 support this card. Therefore
- you've got everything you need to use this tape drive. Simply run
- `mkdev tape' and plug in the configuration parameters you quoted in
- your news article. Select type 'W' for Wangtek. (And thanks for
- describing all of the relevant information on your problem completely
- but succinctly.)
-
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