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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
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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)
>
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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
-- 
Robert Schien    robsch@robkaos.GUN.de
"To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer"