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- From: tuti@tutiki.toppoint.de (Torsten Buelck)
- Subject: Re: Wangtek streamer
- Message-ID: <BuDv4B.2v0@tutiki.toppoint.de>
- Sender: tuti@tutiki.toppoint.de (Torsten Buelck)
- Reply-To: tuti@tutiki.toppoint.de (Torsten Buelck)
- Organization: Tuti's... private UUCP-Site
- References: <1699@nextpoint.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:14:34 GMT
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- In article <1699@nextpoint.UUCP> reini@demo10 (Michael_Reinemuth) writes:
- > Hi ....
-
- Hi, too.
-
- > had anybody ever connectet a Wangtek streamer to his NeXT ??
-
- Yes, I did.
-
- > Ich had an Wangtek 5150 250MB streamer and have to connect it to my
- > NeXTstation ..
-
- I have the same model.
-
- > in the the bootup the streamer delivered on the screen and it looks
- > it works fine .. but when i made TAR or Dump i had an I/O Error...
- >
- > Can anybody help ??
-
- Yes. Look at "hardware.762" in the spring version of the NeXTanswers.
- There's a little program that switches the device driver from
- variable block mode to fixed block mode which is necessary for the
- Wangtek (and most others).
-
- If you don't have access to the NeXTanswers let me know and I'll mail
- you this program.
-
- > greetings Micha
-
- Torsten.
-
- P.S.: I did post this because I mailed this hint to so many people in the
- past. I hope, all potential users of streamers will read this :-)
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