name@portia.Stanford.EDU (tony cooper) (03/17/90)
I have written an A/UX TEAC driver for the TEAC MT-ST/50 drive. It has been under beta test since October. It worked fine for me and noone else has reported any problems with it. It's no hack - it was written specifically for the TEAC drive using code that matches as closely as possible the code for the tc driver from Apple (available from APDA $80) but differing in essential ways since the TEAC is not block addressable. It supports all the features of the TEAC drive (eg it has an ioctl for retensioning, it uses the fast LOCATE command) and writes can be any blocksize multiple of 512 bytes, not 8K. Writes are done using whatever size buffer you have in a single SCSI command. It even compensates for some "features" of the A/UX SCSI manager. Indeed, if I don't say so myself, it is an excellent product. I am ready to release it as a final version. Well, I'm a liar. One person did report problems with it - lots of problems. In fact, he said it made his hard drive beep. I've never heard a hard drive beep before but it is definitely caused by using the TEAC drive. So what can I do? I don't know what causes the problem. I can't replicate it. It's not going to be easy debugging the problem from across the continent. And what's more, I don't have a TEAC drive anymore. In the meantime I can't release the product if it's going to make people's disks beep. Anyone who wants a beta copy can send a request to tony@popserver.stanford.edu I'm not going to post the driver to Sumex while it's still in beta. Some people have trouble receiving the driver by mail. If you have asked for a copy and have not received it then you might have to send me a floppy. That means you, Dave Finklestein. I can't even get ordinary mail through to you now. Cheers, Tony Cooper tony@popserver.stanford.edu
kr@asacsg.mh.nl (Koos Remigius) (03/20/90)
In article <10254@portia.Stanford.EDU>, name@portia.Stanford.EDU (tony cooper) writes: > Anyone who wants a beta copy can send a request to tony@popserver.stanford.edu I like to have of copy of your driver, for testing purpose only. Thanks in advance, Koos Remigius -- Koos Remigius kr@mh.nl via internet backbones Asac Nederland B.V uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!kr Coencoop 7, 2741 PG Waddinxveen, The Netherlands -------------------- "Still crazy after all this years" ---------------------