Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix:1959 comp.sys.ibm.pc:14403 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ncc!alberta!att-ih!gargoyle!ddsw1!karl From: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Everex Tapes vs Xenix Message-ID: <957@ddsw1.UUCP> Date: 12 Apr 88 19:10:53 GMT References: <333@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> <831@spdcc.COM> Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL Lines: 30 Summary: they also support Irwin 145s In article <831@spdcc.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes: >In article <333@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>, wrp@biochsn.acc.virginia.edu (William R. Pearson) writes: >> I would like to continue my saga of the installation of an Everex 60 Mbyte >> streaming tape drive under Xenix. > >If you had asked before hand, you'd have found out that SCO XENIX >supports Wangtek and Archive tape units out-of-the-box, and if you >had bought one of those, you wouldn't be posting now. Or the Irwin 145 (40M on a DC2000, but it requires formatting). The Archive and Wangtek have the advantage of a 'tape' utility; we have a similar utility for Irwin 145 users and Xenix (it comes with the Irwin 145s we sell)... the only disadvantage I have seen with the Irwin is that you cannot make multiple "save sets" on the tape (ie: the tape is one big stream; you can only access it sequentially). We have a 145 here for backup and it works fine. The 145 is slower than the Archive or Wangtek in some circumstances, although most of the time the *disk* is slower than the tape... thus erasing any possible advantage for the "QIC" drives. The Irwin is less expensive, but it eats a floppy slot (our Televideo actually thinks there's a floppy there!) All three work out of the box... plug it in and run 'mkdev tape'; tell the config program what you have, reboot and you're done. ---- Karl Denninger | Data: +1 312 566-8912 Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. | Voice: +1 312 566-8910 ...ihnp4!ddsw1!karl | "Quality solutions for work or play"