goldstein@arrods.enet.dec.com (Steve Goldstein) (12/22/90)
Hi One and All,
I have a question about the Commordore Amiga's SCSI controller..
The A2091,A590 and the inbuilt Controller in the A3000...:-
I have a Microbotics HardFrame rev 1.9 which can see a
TEAC MT2-ST/45S 60 meg Digital Cassette Tape Streamer.
( I have got Tabu to work with both the tape-drive and the HardFrame.)
I set the drive up as SCSI ID 4 or 6 and it is seen...BUT when
connected to a A2091 or A3000 HDtools doesn't see the drive at all, Therfore
the software I have doesn't work :-
ANY IDEAS AS TO WHY THIS IS HAPPENING...?????
Please Mail me with any suggestions or ideas...
Has anybody got any tape drive working on
1) A3000 and 2) A2091
/// Steve Goldstein
/// Digital Equipment Co
\\\/// England.
\XX/ goldstein%arrods.dec@decwrl.dec.comlphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (12/31/90)
In <18453@shlump.nac.dec.com>, goldstein@arrods.enet.dec.com (Steve Goldstein) writes: > Hi One and All, > I have a question about the Commordore Amiga's SCSI controller.. > > The A2091,A590 and the inbuilt Controller in the A3000...:- > > I have a Microbotics HardFrame rev 1.9 which can see a > TEAC MT2-ST/45S 60 meg Digital Cassette Tape Streamer. > > ( I have got Tabu to work with both the tape-drive and the HardFrame.) > > I set the drive up as SCSI ID 4 or 6 and it is seen...BUT when > connected to a A2091 or A3000 HDtools doesn't see the drive at all, Therfore > the software I have doesn't work :- > > ANY IDEAS AS TO WHY THIS IS HAPPENING...????? Yes. The tape unit is not acting like a disk drive when queried during the configuration by the driver software. I am surprised that the HardFrame recognizes it, since when I was playing with it, it would not recognize the tape drive either. I am not familiar with 'Tabu', so I don't know how you might deal with the problem. If it is a program you wrote yourself, you might want to consider some sort of ENV: variable to specify the driver name and the unit number of the tape. This is the way I did it on both my QIC and DAT backup programs. Another suggestion is to use a scheme similar to Markus Wandel's method, which uses a MountList entry. > Please Mail me with any suggestions or ideas... > > Has anybody got any tape drive working on > 1) A3000 and 2) A2091 Yes, several. I am having great fun with a DAT drive. I have it backing up at anout 7.7 megabytes/minute, and I can use it as a storage medium for individual files, with an average access time of 20 seconds to any file on the tape, if I know where it is. Not bad for a tape that will store 1.3 GBytes. -larry -- The best way to accelerate an MsDos machine is at 32 ft/sec/sec. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+