Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!asylum!herctec!root
From: root@herctec.UUCP (Super user)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: CMS Jumbo tape drive and 2.3.2
Keywords: CMS Jumbo Shrimp Spam
Message-ID: <29@herctec.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 90 15:51:02 GMT
References: <28@herctec.UUCP> <265@bradf.UUCP>
Reply-To: root@herctec.UUCP (Super user)
Organization: Hercules Computer Technology, Inc.
Lines: 48

In article <265@bradf.UUCP> brad@bradf.UUCP (Bradley W. Fisher) writes:
>In article <28@herctec.UUCP>, root@herctec.UUCP (Super user) writes:
>> 
>| 
>| 	My problem:  I just installed a Colorado Memory Systems "Jumbo"
>| mini tape drive that attaches to my floppy controller.  I installed this
>| in a DOS machine and it worked beautifully.  Soooo, I thought I'd put it
>| in my Xenix box [.........]

[My original report of various problems deleted]

>| 
>The last time I ran up against one of these drives, I had the same
>problem. A client asked me to move it from a DOS box to their new SCO
>XENIX unit. After having the same kind of problems,I finally found out that
>there are two versions of the PAL on the controller board ... one for DOS, and
>one for XENIX (or so the fourth person I talked to at CMS said!).

Someone on the net was nice enough to tell me this via e-mail, and CMS
actually called me the same day after I sent them a fax.  They seem to
have good support.

Specifically, I found out that the latest firmware revision 40 will not
work under Xenix.  The support person offered me two choices: a> we
could trade our drive in for one with firmware revision 38 (an older,
but Xenix-compatible one) or buy their own Xenix tape driver for
something close to $100.  I don't know a whole bunch about the
functionality of this driver, so I'm still debating...but I'm glad CMS
gave me the choice to swap it for a working tape drive, for no charge.

>
>Fortunately, I was able to talk my client into putting the CMS back into the
>DOS machine ... and putting a Wangtek 5150EK into the XENIX box.

Looks like that's what I'll be doing...until I find the time to get a
working one for my baby!

> 
>	-== Brad Fisher ==- 		             | Tempe, Arizona  85281
>...!asuvax!mcdphx!hrc!microm!bradf!brad		     | 602/894-5526



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