uucp@tmsoft.uucp (Now THATs a Daemon) (03/30/89)
AT the risk of becoming boring, may I ask for further assistance and comments on my ongoing attempts to install a tape drive on my SCO Xenix system... I called Archive and asked for the kernel patches for the 386 SCO Xenix. No they don't have modems. No, they won't use the net. Thanks. The best they can do is US Mail. But call SCO, they'll have the fixes. I do, they send them like right away -- faster than we get things from the nameless Canadian distributor. Great! The enclosed paper explains that this is a support level fix (xnx097) which allows the following QIC-02 AT tape controller/drive combinations to work with Xenix. The following are: Archive SC499r with drive "Scorpion 5945" Archive VP402 with drive "Viper QIC-02 60 or 150mb" Tecmar QIC-02 PC host adaptor with QT 60E, 90E or 125E My archive tape drive is, according to the Product description I had to phone to get, called FasTape. (They're obviously not referring to the installation procedure here!) However it says that the controller is QIC36. Hmmm. Later on it says the following: FASTape is compatible with any standard QIC36 controller. Controllers for the IBM PC/XT/AT and compatible systems and QIC02 compatible controllers are available from Archive... Who out there knows what all these QIC numbers are for? Now I'm going to try the install which automatically calls /etc/mkdev tape. Gulp!