Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sdrc!scjones
From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: help!
Message-ID: <973@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 89 22:11:43 GMT
References: <578@ka3adu.UUCP>
Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati
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In article <578@ka3adu.UUCP>, johncore@ka3adu.UUCP (john core) writes:
> Does anyone know how to get an Archive ft-60 tape drive to
> work on u-port 386 ???. Archive sent me drivers but no instructions.
> When I called them they said they never supported u-port 386, yet
> I have a distribution disk from them labeled u-port 386. On an
> old ad in unix-world they list u-port as supported. but there new
> add makkes no mention of microport. Microport comes with the BSH
> program evinstaLL which used ev.o and config in the atconf directory
> Archive supplied the files ft.o and config. I tried renaming the
> files and using evinstall but the 386 hangs when I call for a tape
> function. Has anyone installed an FT-60 on U-port???

Even as I type this, I am backing up onto one.  I got the drivers
directly from Microport (just before their unfortunate demise).
If you call them, you still might be able to get it.
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