Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!bigtex!qiclab!neighorn
From: neighorn@qiclab.UUCP (Steve Neighorn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Can't backup to floppy
Keywords: /dev/tty, console, cpio, Merge386
Message-ID: <1707@qiclab.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 88 21:16:25 GMT
References: <913@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS> <547@micropen> <1716@ddsw1.UUCP> <926@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS> <520@penguin.UUCP> <204@focsys.UUCP> <1443@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Reply-To: neighorn@qiclab.UUCP (Steve Neighorn)
Organization: Qic Laboratories, Portland, Oregon.
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In article <1443@maccs.McMaster.CA> nusip@maccs.UUCP (Mike Borza) writes:
>That reminds me.  Some time ago, somebody was going to dump the contents of
>the Bell Tech. controller ROMs and diff them against the Everex ROMs.
>Unfortunately, I changed jobs and moved at about that time, and with our
>Bell telco strike, my new phone jacks STILL haven't been installed and ...
>
>So, can somebody tell me how the ROMs compared??

I can't tell you how the ROM dumps compared, I can tell you my experience
with both controllers:

Under Microport V/386 Release 3.0 : Both the Bell board (which is the
Everex board EXCEPT for the ROM, and the original Everex 831 card
work with a Wangtek 60meg tape drive using the Microport supplied
tape driver software.

Under generic Unix/386 Release 3.1 : Both work with the standard tape driver
that comes with Unix.

My disclaimer: These are my experiences only. and do not represent a large
scientific sample of Unix/tape backup users. Sorry.
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