[comp.unix.aux] tape driver for maxStream 60

alex@unisoft.UUCP (Alex Pakter) (07/03/90)

Greetings-

	I have a MaxStream 60 tape drive made by Archive for the mac--
does anyone happen to have a driver for it for use under A/UX?

Alex
----
uunet!unisoft!alex
-- 
Alex
----

rick@Apple.COM (Rick Auricchio) (07/04/90)

In article <3057@unisoft.UUCP> alex@unisoft.UUCP (Alex Pakter) writes:
>	I have a MaxStream 60 tape drive made by Archive for the mac--
>does anyone happen to have a driver for it for use under A/UX?

    The A/UX 2.0 "tc" driver supports it.  It probably will treat the drive
    as a MaxStream 150 (160?), due to the way the drive reports capacity.
    This would only be a minor annoyance, and not a problem if you don't
    try to write all the way to end-of-tape.

    Disclaimer: I only tested with the larger drive, and Apple doesn't
    "advertise" support of the Archive drive with the tc driver.  It was
    feasible to put it in, I did it, and it seems to work.  No guarantee
    what tech support would tell you if there was a problem...though the
    folks at Archive do know we did the work, since we adapted their
    driver to fit into tc.
-- 
-- 
Rick Auricchio, Apple Computer Inc, 20525 Mariani Av MS 58A Cupertino CA 95014
sun!apple!rick   OR   rick@apple.COM     Mooney N894AR     (408) 974-4227
		Never eat prunes when you're famished.
My opinion is my own. My employer? They use a windsock and a fire extinguisher.