stacy@mcl.UUCP (Stacy L. Millions) (12/05/88)
This is to all of you who have installed an Irwin Tape Drive
with SCO Xenix. Please help.
I was under the impression that it would be pretty much a
out of the box "plug and play" installation. Here is the
situation.
Hardware:
- No name AT Clone
- 3 MB RAM
- Adaptec ACB-2322 ESDI controller (Also tried an WD ST506 clone controller)
- Irwin 145 tape drive.
Software:
- SCO Xenix 286 2.2.1
I ran 'mkdev tape' to install the tape drivers, re-linked the kernel
and rebooted. When I tried 'format /dev/rctmini' I got a can not open
/dev/rctmini message. The hardware works under DOS (with the ST506
controller - no DOS partition on the ESDI drive).
Any suggestions?
-stacy
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S. L. Millions ..!tmsoft!mcl!stacysimon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales) (11/28/89)
I'm trying to get my Irwin 10meg tape drive to function on my work computer
under Xenix 286, version 2.2.3. The drive does fine under DOS, but a Xenix
format always fails eventually (ioctl fails on track 8 (9?)). I am using
bulk-erased tapes.
After starting the format, the servo write appears to be done successfully
(format spins tape silently for 15-20min). Then the 'formatting track ##'
appears, but I get an error message just after it starts to format track 9.
Writing to a formatted (???) tape only produces write errors.
Does the Irwin drive only work under 2.3? Noone at work can find a new set
of 2.3 disks, so for now I'm stuck at 2.2.3.
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