Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!zardoz.cpd.com!tmiuv0!rick
From: rick@tmiuv0.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tape drives
Message-ID: <1152@tmiuv0.uucp>
Date: 2 Jan 91 16:25:50 GMT
References: <1990Dec30.220423.3860@csc.anu.edu.au>
Organization: Technology Marketing Inc., Irvine, CA
Lines: 45

In article <1990Dec30.220423.3860@csc.anu.edu.au>, mlw100@csc.anu.edu.au writes:
> Happy New year (well almost),

Same to you, but I'm responding on 1/2/91.  So I'm slow! 8-)

> 	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 use a WangTek 5150 on my HardFrame.  Works fine, but the software I use
is pretty brain dead.

> 	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.

Um, I'll take a stab at it.  First, make sure that the tape drive is plugged
into the controller and turned ON BEFORE you boot your system.  You also may
want to insert your tape prior to bootstrapping.  Additional things to watch
for:  Make sure that the SCSI cable is terminated properly.  Odds are that
your disk has terminators installed (if it's the only drive you have) and the
tape drive probably does too.  Make sure that the device AT THE END OF THE
CABLE is the ONLY one that has terminators installed.  Make sure that the
tape is write-enabled (that one bit me once).

You could, of course, call GVP and see what they say.  Nah, that's too easy!
              (big, wide, toothy GRIN!)
 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Mark Winsall
> 
> please E-Mail me if you have any ideas.

I would've E-Mailed it, but sometimes those get gronched at this end.
 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[- O] Rick Stevens
  ?   EMail: uunet!zardoz!tmiuv0!rick -or- uunet!zardoz!xyclone!sysop
  V   CIS: 75006,1355 (75006.1355@compuserve.com from Internet)

"I'm tellin' ya, Valiant!  Da whole ting stinks like yesterday's diapers!"
                                - Baby Herman in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"
----------------------------------------------------------------------------