Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: WangTek 150MB tape drive for $480 Message-ID: <8082@gollum.twg.com> Date: 13 Oct 90 20:50:55 GMT Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 32 Where? Why at a place in Mountain View CA called "Computel" (415) 964-2600. They sell it with IBM PC/?? controller & software for $595 but I said I didn't need any of that stuff and so got the $480 price. Now ... before I leap into doing this, what chance is there of actually pulling this off? I have a 2090A controller right now and I'm already prepared to switch to the new GVP board and add a 40-meg quantum into the deal. GVP sells a complete system with cables and so forth and so on for $639 (price from Creative Computers ad in AmigaWhirled). What's in the extra $150 that can screw me up? Maybe nothing since an external case+power supply can easily run that much. (I already have one -- a pc-clone box) Does GVP include a software controller for the device? I know about SCSI-Direct -- that just lets a program send SCSI commands directly to the SCSI bus, right? Doesn't automatically mean "controls a tape". Which means it's very likely that it does include a device driver. But does the device driver do any more than what was posted in comp.{binaries,sources}.amiga the other day? The cabling I expect to be pretty easy. The WT-150 is an SCSI tape drive .. Possibly everything I'd need is over at Fry's Electronics or Weird Stuff Warehouse.. -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- Remember: On System V it's "tar xovf", not "tar xvf"!