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From: david@raffles.demon.co.uk (David Dooley)
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Subject: Problems with Archive Viper 525MB tape drive
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 12:10:32 +0000
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Hello,
Help. I have a i486DX/33Mz machine with an Adeptec 1542B SCSI interface in
factory default configuration and 2 SCSI disks first being a Seagate ST1239N
(200MB) second a Quantum PD1050iS and an Archive Viper 2525S 525MB tape
streamer with version 007 roms. The problem is that the drive appears to work
fine with DC6525 tapes both for reading and writing but refuses to read or any
other type of tape. The system comes up with a "worm" error when ever this is
tried I don't have the full error message as I nolonger have any of the tapes
that caused it, but if required I can lay my hand on one and recreate it. I
have tried to speak with Maynard in England but all they say is the verion 007
revision rom fixed most if not all bugs related to the drive. I did manage to
speak with one bod at Manyard and seemed to think it was because their was no
jumper accross cf1 and this would allow the drive to auto select the correct
physical block size of the tape but according to my incredably informative :-)
manual all this does is select a 4k buffer disconect. This jumper did nothing
to fix the problem and also did not make it any worse.
The tape is id 2 but configured as the first physical device on the scsi bus,
with the Segate being configured as id 0 and the last physical device and
terminated correctly. The machine is currently configured with 8MB of memory
and a 256K cash I give this information as I don't know if it is relevent.
Not mentioned above the system is currrently running 386BSD split accros both
disks with DOS partitions on both disk also.
I will try any thing to get this fixed as it would make my life so much easier
with beaing able to transfer files to and from work and from another machine
that uses a 150MB Archive Viper tape drive and 386BSD. By the way we both have
the same revision level of 386BSD which leads me to belive that the problem
is physical.
Thank you in advance.
David Dooley
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