felix@netmbx.UUCP (Felix Gaehtgens) (12/30/88)
hi! i'm having problems with the WANGTEK 135Mb Streamer from COMPAQ. I am using SCO's 2.3 XENIX for the COMPAQ 386-16. When using the command tape erase or tape rewind it *seems* to do the job. But using tar won't work (the streamer drives the tape around a bit and then it hangs). Anybody know how to handle this? Or is the compaq streamer/xenix driver pure JUNK ??? so long, felix
root@blender.UUCP (Super user) (01/02/89)
In article <1887@netmbx.UUCP>, felix@netmbx.UUCP (Felix Gaehtgens) writes: > i'm having problems with the WANGTEK 135Mb Streamer from COMPAQ. I am using > SCO's 2.3 XENIX for the COMPAQ 386-16. > When using the command tape erase or tape rewind it *seems* to do the job. > But using tar won't work (the streamer drives the tape around a bit and then it hangs). I've installed several Wangtek 60Meg's in compaq's and Wyse '386s with a great amount of pain and aggravation. All these machines run SCO 2.2.3 but I don't imagine the problem is a difference between 223 and 231. The problems I've found are mainly interrupt related and/or base-address. The default interrupts that the WangTek controller comes with are generally undesirable for a xenix machine. I'm not sure off-hand what the interrupts were that I finally ended up with but it was mostly trial and error. The Wyse'386 was a particularly nasty one since WangTek themselves said it couldn't be done and Wyse said they had never heard of anyone installing a WangTek in their machine. After about 4 hours of mucking around with interrupts and base-addresses the thing finally worked and has been doing so for about 8 months now. In summary, try changing the jumpers on the controller and then "mkdev tape" with the appropriate changes until it works or you exhaust all possibilities.