Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cithep.UucP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!escher!cithep!tim From: tim@cithep.UucP (Tim Smith ) Newsgroups: net.periphs Subject: Re: Suggestions for 9-track tape drives wanted. Message-ID: <134@cithep.UucP> Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 22:37:54 EDT Article-I.D.: cithep.134 Posted: Sat Sep 21 22:37:54 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Sep-85 07:32:20 EDT References: <454@scirtp.UUCP>, <170@ciprico.UUCP> Organization: Caltech HEP, Pasadena, CA Lines: 19 Keywords: multibus drivers controllers >> We (the software group) are looking for suggestions for: >> * Multibus controllers for 9-track tape drives > > Ciprico makes these. Nice and fast too. Yeah, the tape controllers are nice. But if you want to use both the Ciprico Tapemaster and the Ciprico Rimfire-50 disk controller, make sure that they have fixed the problems with using a Rimfire-50 with a Tapemaster. Unless you are very careful about bus lock, and about transfer sizes, you either get DMA overruns from the tape, or the Rimfire will reset itself, which our driver was not at all happy about! Even if they haven't fixed these problems, they are still worth serious consideration, since you can program around these problems easily ( the hard part was finding out was wrong ), and in all other respects, they seem pretty good. -- Tim Smith ihnp4!cithep!tim Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com