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From: osvaldo@sos.com (Osvaldo Gold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 6157 tape drive on AT machine
Message-ID: <172@sos.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 19:28:34 GMT
References: <170@sos.com> <15365@scorn.sco.COM>
Reply-To: osvaldo@sos.com (Osvaldo Gold)
Organization: Secure Online Systems, Inc, Los Angeles, CA
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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.  The 6157 tape drive and bus card work fine in SCO UNIX and
>SCO Xenix for Micro Channel architecture machines.
>


Sorry Paul.  THERE IS an AT adapter card for the 6157 tape drive.  How
do I know?   I have it.  We just bought it!!!!  IBM sells it.  It comes
with documentation and diagnostics tests.  

What it doesn't include is any assurance that SCO will help me get 
it working. ;-(

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