Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!intelhf!agora!billsey From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Archive tape drives for sale Message-ID: <1990Sep21.155844.14511@agora.uucp> Date: 21 Sep 90 15:58:44 GMT References: <1990Sep20.203248.4070@agora.uucp> <92650@srcsip.UUCP> Organization: Open Communication Forum Lines: 50 In article <92650@srcsip.UUCP> carpent@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Carpenter) writes: :In article <1990Sep20.203248.4070@agora.uucp> billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) writes: : :> I have a few refurbished Archive A2150S scsi tape drives for sale. :> The 2150S is 120M with DC-600A, 150M with DC-6150 and 250M with DC-6250 :> tapes. It's embedded scsi and works well with the Nexus software and with :> the PD stuff that Markus has been doing. The drive is a 5.25 inch, half :> height with black front bezels. They come with a 90 day warranty from the :> refurbisher and sell for $450 each. :> :> [BTW, pretty much any of the scsidirect implementations should work fine :> with these scsi drives, but I've had some troubles with the Supra... I'm : :AIGH!! You people talking about SCSI tape drives are JUST doing it to torture :those of us who are stuck with the A2090a controllers! You are SO cruel! Yes, and we all do it on purpose! :-) [Heheheh] :-) :So, that brings on a serious question: Has anyone managed to get the A2090a :patched up so it can be used with a SCSI tape? I would be willing to pay for :it, even! (I know, I could *pay* for a new controller, too. But I only have 1 :SCSI drive, and 4 ST506. Another SCSI controller doesn't do me a whole lot of :good, especially since I could hook up another 5 to this one, plus the tape :drive.) I'm really suprised someone hasn't reverse engineered the 2090/2090a device driver to fix all the incompatibilities with current standards. It sure seems like it'd be a good product. Charge $19.95 each and sell one to everyone who has one of those controllers. I seem to remember someone (Maybe Dan James?) who had a scsi tape drive working on a 2090a. I don't know if that has ever been released, but I'll start looking around for it. If you're interested at all in going to a scsi only controller, Adaptec makes a SCSI<->ST-506 adapter (ACB-5500) that supports four ST-506 drives as one SCSI device. It sells for $79.95 from Computer Surplus Store (Weird Stuff Warehouse in their Computer Shopper ads.) I have a scsi direct utility for formatting the 5500 drives that Phil Staub did... :Todd P. Carpenter Honeywell Systems and Research Center :voice: (612)782-7229 3660 Technology Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55418-1006 :domain: carpent@src.honeywell.com or Arkon%kryl@src.honeywell.com :bang-style: !srcsip!carpent Citadel: US 612 699 3106 (Kryl) :User Manual, p34, line 5: I am not authorized to have any opinions. -- -Bill Seymour ...tektronix!reed!percival!agora!billsey ============================================================================= Bejed, Inc. NES, Inc. Northwest Amiga Group At Home Sometimes (503) 281-8153 (503) 246-9311 (503) 656-7393 BBS (503) 640-0842