mts@ms.UUCP (Martin Stanley) (03/19/86)
I am attempting to write a device driver for a Cipher 525 streaming tape drive. This is the type of drive that looks like a (very large) floppy disk and attaches to an existing floppy disk controller. The environment is System Vr1 (UniPlus+) on a 68k box. The main problem I am having is figuring out how to keep the thing streaming. If it has to go into start/stop mode the performance will be terrible. Also, in order to format the tape, it must get up to streaming speed. Anyone out there have any experience with this sort of thing. Any help/advice (short of scrapping the whole mess), will be greatly appreciated. -- ------ Martin Stanley Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Toronto, ON M5S 1A4 USENET: {decvax,ihnp4,linus,uw-beaver}!utcsri!utai!ms!mts CSNET: mts@toronto ARPANET: mts.toronto@csnet-relay