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From: rivers@ponds.uucp (Thomas David Rivers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Wangtek 5099/5150ES questions.
Summary: How to read 5099 on a 5150ES, what are 5099 settings?
Keywords: WANGTEK, 5099, 5150ES, SCSI tape, tape, QIC-120, QIC-60
Message-ID: <1992Dec15.012556.10779@ponds.uucp>
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:25:56 GMT
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While we're talking tape drives here, I have two questions to pose
to the net-at-large.
1) I have replaced my Wangtek 5099-EN 24 (QIC-60 with it's own controller)
with a Wangtek 5150ES, hung off of my SCSI controller. Although
it seems to have no problems reading/writting new tapes (and it
streams *very* well) it doesn't seem to be able to read tapes written
with the 5099. It reads *some* of the tape, never very much...
Is there some special magic to getting this to work?
2) I had to permute the settings on the 5099 controller making guesses
until I hit on 0x300 as the address. You guessed it, I bought this
second hand a *long* time ago, and go *no* documentation with it.
I would appreciate if someone could send me the switch settings, etc...
as I would like to have this tape drive in another box (to read the
old tapes), but the 0x300 address conflicts with my NE2000 card.
The controller looks like:
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ASSY 30006-002 EV-835 REV. C |
| |
| |
| ==----------
| ==----------
| ==-----------
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ==---Ribbon---
| On +--------------------+ ==----Cable---
| |S S S S S S S S S S | ==-------------
| Off +--------------------+ ==-------------
| ==-------------
| IRQ O41 DRQ DACK |
| 2345 67 123 123 |
+--------------------------------+ +------------+
||||||||||||||||||||||
+--------------------+
Where the large block in the center (labelled "On"/"Off") is a set of
10 switches. The numbers items labeled IRQ (obviously Interrupte Requst #),
041, DRQ and DACK are jumpers. That is, each of the digits represents a
single jumper, in a contiguous row - it's just hard to draw that...
The board is made by Wangtek and is labelled "ASSY 30006-002 - REV. C".
If anyone has any info about the switch settings, I'd really appreciate
it.
- Thanks -
- Dave Rivers -