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From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: 6157 tape drive on AT machine
Summary: Works on our AT-bus machines.
Message-ID: <668978020.11327@mindcraft.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 19:13:39 GMT
References: <170@sos.com> <15365@scorn.sco.COM>
Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
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In article <15365@scorn.sco.COM> paulz@sco.COM
(W. Paul Zola) writes:
>In article <170@sos.com> osvaldo@sos.com (Osvaldo Gold) writes:
>}Does anybody know what is required to get the IBM tape drive 6157 
>}to work on an AT machine?
>
>This won't work.  The 6157 tape drive must be attached to a 6157 bus
>card.  This card will only fit in a Micro Channel machine.  If you
>attempt to attach this drive to any other bus card, it will not work
>properly.

Our 6157s work OK on our RTs, which are AT-bus machines.

>The 6157 tape drive and bus card work fine in SCO UNIX and
>SCO Xenix for Micro Channel architecture machines.

Is the host protocol different between the Micro Channel 6157
bus card and the AT bus 6157 bus card?  If not, the driver
differences should be minimal.

	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
	Mindcraft, Inc.		(415) 323-9000