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From: dyer@athena.mit.edu (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: wanted - unix/xenix driver for techmar Q60AT tape
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Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 19:41:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  4 19:41:05 1987
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Keywords: driver, unix, xenix
Summary: good luck--you'll need it.
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SCO XENIX 2.2.1 has support for the Tecmar QIC60AT with the
"long controller board", which is a Wangtek PC36 card.  If
you have a Tecmar tape drive with the "short card" which
just provides a controller interface, you're out of luck.
Tecmar considers the controller info proprietary and won't
release it.  After several months of calling, I was pointed to
the firm which developed the DOS software for their tape
drive.  They told me that they had a XENIX driver coming out
in a few weeks (this was a month or so ago), but I never pursued
it due to my upgrade to XENIX 386, which isn't compatible with
286 drivers anyway.  I bought a Wangtek tape drive which is also
supported by SCO, and I've lived happily ever after.  I wish I had
done that a long time ago.

The firm is known as "Colorado Memory Systems" in Loveland, CO.
I don't have their phone no. handy, but they're in directory assistance.
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.HARVARD.EDU
dyer@spdcc.COM aka {harvard,wanginst,ima,ihnp4,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!dyer