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From: mlw100@csc.anu.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Tape drives
Message-ID: <1990Dec30.220423.3860@csc.anu.edu.au>
Date: 30 Dec 90 12:04:22 GMT
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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Happy New year (well almost),

	I wonder if anyone has managed to use an Archive quarter inch cartridge
tape drive (model 5945C) on a GVP SCSI controller (new or old). I have the
latest revision of the GVP ROM chips and neither GVP's own TapeStore program
nor the public domain BetterThanNothing tape-handler/TAR programs can access
it. It is possible that I have a hardware problem, but the tape unit was
previously working on a different type of computer.

	When I mount the BTN handler the machine just guru's when I use TAR,
and when using the other handler by Markus Wandel, TAR just doesn't see the
device and assumes TAPE:r means a disk file. I'm using the suggested mountlists
for each and the SCSI unit number is correctly set. GVP's TapeStore program
just says the Tape unit is not ready.

Thanks in advance,

Mark Winsall

please E-Mail me if you have any ideas.