jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) (10/02/89)
I need a tape drive to go in each of several AT&T 6386 WGS (20 MHz) machines. We bought an Archive & it simply WOULD NOT WORK. Any attempt to cause tape motion made the tape drive light come on and then it just hung. I couldn't retension, rewind, anything. Called Archive and they said yes indeed, the 6386 *was* on their list, it was tested and known to be *incompatible* with the Archive FasTape. Has anyone gotten any 3rd party drive to work? Everex? AT&T announced a new tape drive for the Intel based machines. Anyone know if the new tape will work in the Olivetti machines?? It *sure is cheaper* than the ridiculous amount they wanted for the original "regulation" 6386 tape drive. Incidentally the cable that came with the Archive between the drive & controller was pretty fubar'ed up! It had one of the 50 pins blocked at the end with all the pins, and at the edge-card end it had two of the little slit blockers inserted instead of one. Don't these guys know how to make up a cable for their own product? -- Jim Rosenberg CIS: 71515,124 decvax!idis! \ WELL: jer allegra! ---- pitt!amanue!jr BIX: jrosenberg uunet!cmcl2!cadre! /
fmcgee@cuuxb.ATT.COM (~XT6561110~Frank McGee~C23~L25~6326~) (10/04/89)
In article <460@amanue.UUCP> jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes: >I need a tape drive to go in each of several AT&T 6386 WGS (20 MHz) machines. >We bought an Archive & it simply WOULD NOT WORK. Any attempt to cause tape Bell Technologies sells a 60 MB drive/controller combination that we've had here for over a year with no problems. I've used it under both Unix and DOS, no complaints. -- Frank McGee, AT&T Tier 3 Indirect Channel Sales Support attmail!fmcgee
paul@cscnj.csc.COM (Paul Moody) (10/04/89)
We have a Bell Technologies XTC. It works, but you have to do some juggling to get it, a lan card(Micom) and an internal modem to work. We gave up on the internal modem. -- Paul Moody UUCP: rutgers!cscnj!paul Computer Sciences Corporation # the opinions expressed are entirely imaginary #