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From: jac@penguin.UUCP (James Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Compaq Tape Drive under Bell Tech Unix
Summary: if not an answer, then maybe a caution
Keywords: Compaq Bell-Tech UNIX
Message-ID: <524@penguin.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 15:26:32 GMT
References: <521@penguin.UUCP> <7115@icdi10.uucp>
Organization: Penguin Software Service / Tulsa, Ok
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In article <7115@icdi10.uucp>, fr@icdi10.uucp (Fred Rump from home) writes:
> In article <521@penguin.UUCP>, jac@penguin.UUCP (James Carter) writes:
> < I am trying to bring up Locus' MERGE 386 with Bell Tech UNIX on a Compaq
> < 386 Deskpro (16mhz) and am doing pretty good except for the gottcha....
> < There seems to be no tape driver in Bell Techs Unix for the internal 40mb
> < Compaq Tape Drive. It appears to be driven off of the floppy disk controller
> How much pain do you need to make a buck?
> -- 

I was hoping for a response that said I had overlooked something, but in it's
absence, this was also intended as a caution to future purchasers of the
MERGE/386 product. (Locus still runs full page ads on the back of Computer
Systems News that imply that they have it all figured out.)

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