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From: stephane@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Stephane Guillard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3090 tape driver ??(Re: BTN 2.0 Tape handler)
Keywords: TAR, BTN, A3000, A3090
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.102543.16262@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>
Date: 22 Apr 91 10:25:43 GMT
References: <1991Apr13.014520.13657@sugar.hackercorp.com> <61897@masscomp.westford.ccur.com> <5692@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
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In article <5692@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> masaru@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Masaru Sugai) writes:
>In article <61897@masscomp.westford.ccur.com> mark@calvin.westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes:
>>In article <1991Apr13.014520.13657@sugar.hackercorp.com> ssd@sugar.hackercorp.com (Scott Denham) writes:
>>>Does anyone recognize these symptoms?  
>>> I'm running BTNTape 2.0 on an A2000 / A2090A to a Cipher 540 1/4" tape
>>>drive. I can get TAR to read from the drive, but after some
>>>(variable) number of blocks are read, the system locks up solid.
>> [...]
>Encouraged with this success, I then tried TAR+MWtape from fish #440s, and
>it ruined my Saturday night!  I had to check several FTP sites, CIS, and BIX
>to get ARP mount command which MWtape requires, but no avail.
>
>I gave up MWtape and went to BTN.  BTN seems quite useful, especially its
>tapemon tool is wonderful as it shows what's going on in tape drives.
>[...]
>-- Masaru Sugai

  MWTape does not actually NEED ARP Mount to work properly if you own a C
  compiler : you can hardwire all the STARTUP params in the source code ;
  just use the defaults (SCSI ID 4 for the 3090 ; bs 512, etc...) and
  you'll be able to read'n'write Unix-compatible ATR tapes (150mb)
  perfectly (I do it each day). If you're interested in the :
    A - directly usable binary
    B - modified source

      then email me and I'll forward this to you.

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