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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix and Archive Tape Drives (was: Xenix vs. Unix?)
Message-ID: <1217@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 8 Sep 89 14:43:02 GMT
References: <233@usource.UUCP>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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in article <233@usource.UUCP>, frankb@usource.UUCP (Frank Bicknell) says:

| In article <26@fleet.UUCP> mel@.UUCP () writes:
|>In article <34@nstar.UUCP> larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:

|> SCO Xenix isn't all that great at tape drive support either.
|> Ever since I switched to 2.3.1 Xenix it takes TWO attempts at
|> starting the tape drive.  (I'm using an Archive 150 meg/QIC02
|> internal on my HP Vectra 386/RS20) 
| 
| Strange... we have a client who has been using an Archive 150M
| tape with 2.3.1 for a year or so without any such problems as
| you describe.  Are there any interrupt/address nonsense

My Everex 386/20 with Archive 150 MB and ? SCSI adapter also takes 
two tries, with absolute consistency.
XENIX/386 2.2, 2.2.2, 2.3.?
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