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From: desmond@cod.NOSC.MIL (J. Desmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Help with Irwin Backup Tape
Keywords: irwin zenith tape backup help
Message-ID: <1566@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 21 Jun 89 14:54:30 GMT
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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Help! My office purchased an Irwin Magnetics 20 MB internal
backup tape system, Model 125, configuration AK.  It came with
very good software and great software documentation and
absolutely NO hardware documentation...not even a word about the
jumpers on the thing let alone how to set up the rest of a
computer to accommodate it.  I don't even know if it's supposed
to look like a floppy or a fixed.  It doesn't seem to need any
special drivers, though.  My disk controller has plugs for two
hard disks, two floppies, and a connector on the back for an
exterior tape backup unit (which is currently connected and
operating).  If this new one will work I'll disconnect the old
one.  Does anyone have any idea how to hook this up?  When I took
my best guess the new software tried to run the old tape unit, so
I guess a serious attempt to make the new unit work will entail
first removing the old one.  But I still need to know where to
plug it in and how to set jumpers.  There wasn't even a phone
number to call in case of trouble!  The computer is a Z-248.

-J. M. Desmond
desmond@nosc.mil