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From: blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: The Hardframe 2000, BTNTape, and Everything
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.163635.22474@javelin.es.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 16:36:35 GMT
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johnhlee@elli.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee) writes:
>Has anyone gotten the BTNTape SCSI tape driver to function with a Hardframe
>2000?

>I purchased a surplus MCD40 SCSI tape drive and have successfully hooked it
>up to my system.  BTNTape can successfully query the drive, do a tape rewind,
>etc., but will GURU (#4--illegal instruction) whenever it tries a SCSI write
>or SCSI read of data.  It's a bit strange since the other SCSI-Direct commands
>function just fine.  Is it a problem with the Hardframe driver?

It may be the BTNTape driver, since it was only designed to support one
particular 3M random access tape drive. If that's what you've got,
nevermind, the model number mentioned doesn't ring any bells. 

I'm quite sure the problem is not the Hardframe because I've
successfully used Marcus Wandel's TAPE: device with several tape drives
on an A2500.
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