chuck@uswat.UUCP (Chuck Luciano) (08/28/90)
I inquired about this earlier before receiving my O.S. Now I have received SCO System V and it claims to support the mountain 4440. I haven't been able to prove this with my system. First of all the tape drive is designed to be connected in parallel with the "B" disk drive. When I spoke to mountain they said SCO supported QIC-40 but not in parallel with the "B" drive, so I tested everything with a 1.44Mb floppy as "A", and the Mountain 4440 as "B". I ran mkdev tape and told it qic-40 format, and it did the install. I rebuilt the O.S. AND rebooted. It doesn't access the drive. Mkdev tape asks for one bit of data that being the drive address, I used all four choices, rebuilt and rebooted none worked. I also noted that when I tried address 1 attempting to access the tape resulted in the drive A light coming on. So I switched the address back to 2 and plugged the B connector into a disk drive and sure enough when I tried to access the tape the drive B light came on. I have concluded that this is the correct drive address. However for some reason when I run the mountain tape software under DOS (which runs correctly) the chktape command reports the tape drive to be at address 8 out of 0..ff. I don't know if this is relevant. Any clues? Anybody got one of these drives on their Unix system? Does it work? I also have a problem using a US Robotics internal Sportster 2400 modem. I can't get it to autoanswer. Also sometimes when it is installed if I cu to it my console gets screwed up (missing characters) and I have to reboot. I used mkdev serial to install it. Chuck (I'll never take another system administrator for granted again) Luciano 303-421-9113 chuck@uswat.uswest.com