dfh@scirtp.UUCP (David F. Hinnant) (09/13/85)
We (the software group) are looking for suggestions for:
* Multibus controllers for 9-track tape drives
and
* 9 track tape drives for a meduim size multibus UNIX box.
that they (the hardware group) didn't specify when designing our machine
(the yet-to-be-released SCI 2000). I've used a Cipher front-loading tape
drive a while ago, but I remember it had problems with small reels. Are
there any vendors that supply device drivers for their controllers? Any
advice welcome.
As they say, Thanks in advance.
--
David Hinnant
SCI Systems, Inc.
{decvax, akgua}!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!dfhdan@ciprico.UUCP (Dan A. Dickey) (09/18/85)
In article <454@scirtp.UUCP> dfh@scirtp.UUCP (David F. Hinnant) writes: > We (the software group) are looking for suggestions for: > * Multibus controllers for 9-track tape drives Ciprico makes these. Nice and fast too. >Are there any vendors that supply device drivers for their controllers? Any >advice welcome. And we supply drivers for them. System III, System V, and BSD 4.2 (Sun) -- -Dan A. Dickey ihnp4!rosevax!ciprico!dan
tim@cithep.UucP (Tim Smith ) (09/22/85)
>> We (the software group) are looking for suggestions for: >> * Multibus controllers for 9-track tape drives > > Ciprico makes these. Nice and fast too. Yeah, the tape controllers are nice. But if you want to use both the Ciprico Tapemaster and the Ciprico Rimfire-50 disk controller, make sure that they have fixed the problems with using a Rimfire-50 with a Tapemaster. Unless you are very careful about bus lock, and about transfer sizes, you either get DMA overruns from the tape, or the Rimfire will reset itself, which our driver was not at all happy about! Even if they haven't fixed these problems, they are still worth serious consideration, since you can program around these problems easily ( the hard part was finding out was wrong ), and in all other respects, they seem pretty good. -- Tim Smith ihnp4!cithep!tim